DOMESTIC NEWS: Strengthening SMEs: Boosting competitiveness through planned incubation centre...UEC sets campaign period, urges candidates to respect laws...Ethnic minorities aim for greater representation in 2016 parliament...Photo exhibition captures Yangon Circle Line scenes...SEZs critical to job creation, exports ? Vice President...UEC urges election officials to understand electoral process...Checkups at BEHS in Pobbathiri...Monastic school opened in Mantong...Donors provide paddy seeds to re-cultivate crops in Myanaung...Jam and jelly making course begins in Yinmabin...Kyangin villagers evacuated to safer places as river rises...Donations flood in to Relief and Resettlement Department...Officials provide bags of rice to victim of erosion...Government helps farmers in Bilin replant damaged crops...Mandalay Region stakeholders prepare for free and fair election...Region minister provides cash assistance for trainee teachers...Rains cause heavy flooding in Hkamti...UEC panel overturns regional election commission verdicts...Pun Hlaing Golf Club to host Junior Championships...Township teams join double regu, regu events in tournament..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union Home Affairs Minister holds talks with UNDP...Pyithu Hluttaw speaker meets US Ambassador...President U Thein Sein attends commemorations in China...Vice-Senior General Soe Win attends dinner for ASEAN Defence Forum...U Aung Tha Nyun concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Nigeria...Japanese architect shares preservation techniques...Royal Thai Army medical team visits flood-hit Kyangin...Myanmar?s Tatmadaw seeks increased cooperation...Appointment of ambassador agreed on...11 chosen for SEA Junior Tennis Tournament..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Why your vote deserves careful thought" by Kyaw Thura..... ARTICLE: "PLETHORA OF POLITICAL PARTIES" by U Than Htay