DOMESTIC NEWS: President gives awards to outstanding students in English language proficiency competitions…Capacity building course for officers kicks off…Suspected Ebola patient in better health…Pyithu Hluttaw (Lower House) Speaker meets ethnic armed group leaders…Body-builders, fashion winners awarded at Kyaukse University…Mandalay women win over performers 7-6 in fund-raising football match…Traditional medicine university students enjoy sports competitions…Local people hope for maintenance of road section in Mohnyin Tsp…Refreshment, food donated to patients at Mandalay hospitals… District officials supervise implementation of emerald green project in villages…Stimulant tablets worth K30 million seized in Myawady Town…City Hospital in Mandalay commissions CT scan into service…Letter to the Editor… Ethnic delegations call on Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker… WHO project for people with epilepsy chooses three sub-urban townships in Yangon, Nay Pyi Taw to access treatment.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: ASEAN, Plus Three countries retain trade, investment momentum despite challenges… ASEAN, China agree to upgrade ACFTA…S Korea becomes ASEAN?s fifth largest investor, adds $ 3.5 billion in FDI in 2013…UN Secretary-General?s special envoy urges Bengalis to cooperate in citizenship probe…Vice President U Nyan Tun receives Japanese business delegation…ASEAN-Japan bilateral trade reaches $240.9billion in 2013…SMRJ to invite Myanmar entrepreneurs for undertaking joint venture in Japan…NPED Union Minister receives four foreign ministers…ASEAN-Australia-NZ economic ministers meet in Nay Pyi Taw….."PERSPECTIVES": "Myanmar should have more alternative revenue sources for long-term development" by Aung Khin…