HLUTTAW:- PYITHU HLUTTAW: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw approves 5 million euro loan from Germany for locomotive factory...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw approves to extend terms of parliamentary committees..... OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: anti-violence ceremony at Yangon airport...Private school teacher licenses to be issued in June...Myanma Railways to decrease freight rates as of 1 March...Man in charge of 100 Households attacked with knife in Maungtaw ...Fire destroys home in Maungtaw ...Myanmar seafarers invited to join luxury cruise liners...Missing Khami ethnic found dead...Eindu-Zarthapyin asphalt road almost completed...6.5 million yaba pills seized in Heho...Association to request that thanakha be delisted as forest product...Management committees for 29 industrial zones to be formed...Vp U Henry Van Thio inspects regional development works in Kanpetlet & mindat...UPDJC holds discussion for security sector..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker receives President of USIP...Faculty, students from Mandalay University observe workings of Election Commission...Vice President receives Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister...State Counsellor receives President of USIP...Vice President U Myint Swe hosts dinner in honour of Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister...Seeds from endemic endangered orchids placed in Norway?s Global Seed Vault ...KBZ Bank opens settlement account in US...Myanmar honey eyed for export to EU countries..... "OPINION": "Connecting to the big brain"-Kyaw Myaing..... ARTICLE: "Newspapers We Loved to Read Once"-Khin Maung Oo