HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: Second Pyidaungsu Hluttaw?s ninth regular session holds fourteenth-day meeting.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: State Counsellor attends Kayin traditional wrist-tying festival in Yangon...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Joint Bill Committee holds meeting on 2018-2019 Union Tax Bill...State Counsellor discusses literary fiction with university students...Clariant, Save the Children partner to stop spread of malaria...Nearly 3,000 Yaba tablets seized in Bago...EARTHQUAKE NEWS...Flood Warning...Myanmar Daily Weather Report...VP U Myint Swe addresses MSME 2017 Survey presentation...Additional statistical bulletin on drug seizures, acting on information...TRADEMARK CAUTION...Customs Department seizes illegal goods at Yaypu, Mayanchaung check points.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Win Myint, First Lady Daw Cho Cho in Nepal on official visit...Pyithu Hluttaw Deputy Speaker U Tun Tun Hein receives Ambassador of PRC...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker U T Khun Myat receives Ambassador of PRC...Senior General receives Japanese Ambassador...Myanmar, Bangladesh conduct coordinated patrol from Mile Post 43 to 44...YIA, CEA welcome 4 millionth passenger...U Zaw Htay, Spokesman of the Office of the President: the questions have been raised as to the reasons for the removal of the Facebook accounts and pages associated with Tatmadaw...Myanma Insurance, Shin Ye Htut Group sign MoU on one million apartments project...U Myo Tint appointed as Non-Resident Ambassador of Myanmar to the Republic of Chile...Thura U Shwe Mann receives UN Resident Coordinator...Union Minister Dr. Pe Myint leaves for Republic of Korea.....OPINION: "Sharing love with the soft power of literary fiction".....ARTICLE: "LIBRARIES AND I" - By Maung Hlaing