HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYITHU HLUTTAW: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw discusses Union Tax Bill, Territorial River and River Zones Bill...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw nods motion of borrowing 10.787 billion Yen for maintenance of hydro power plants...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw nods motion of borrowing 10.787 billion Yen for maintenance of hydro power plants...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw passes Ks3.65 billion allocation for development of Rakhine..... OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: A Day For Bogyoke & CHIlDREN...Yangon celebrates Day for Children marking Bogyoke Birthday...Performance, fund raising ceremony held marking Union Peace Year-2017...Prevention of collapse of river banks, improving water way made in Sagaing...Gov?t, CSOs to raise collaboration on disaster prevention projects in Mandalay...Scouts volunteer at Children?s hospitals...construction of public recreation area to be completed this year...Fires across Myanmar cause over Ks1.7 billion in losses last month...Sittway court gives death sentence to culprit involved in Kotankauk outpost attack...stimulants worth over Ks190 million seized in Naf River...women invited to join walkathon to combat anaemia...Middle-age man drowns in creek ...New 500-bed hospital to be built in Bago later this month...Over 240 CNG buses received slip from deregistration...Mon National Party presents policies and programmes...Over 60 tonnes of illegal timber found in Dagon Industrial Zone..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Htin Kyaw receives Thai Ambassador...Investigation Commission on Maungtaw continues fact- finding mission in villages...FDI hit over US$ 5.81 billion in 10 months of this FY...External trade over US$23 billion as of 3rd February...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing receives Thai Ambassador..... "OPINION": "No development without discipline" - Kyaw Myaing..... ARTICLE: "Recent developments in microstructure approach to exchange rate determination and implications for monetary policy" - Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt