DOMESTIC NEWS: Major Step To Peace - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi talks with non-signatory armed groups...Defence Services Commanderin- Chief?s Office (Army, Navy and Air) holds Waso robes offering ceremony...Ministry of Hotels and Tourism reminds contractors to apply for building permits before, not after, construction...Govt allocates over K10 billion to expand electricity access within Bago Region...State Counsellor visits two museums in Yangon...Rakhine Coast could be made a conservation area...DMH alerts flood warning as Chindwin exceeds danger level...Head-on-collision kills motorcyclist...Bus accident kills two, injures 34...Land plots to be returned to lepers...Kilogram of heroin seized in Banmauk...One more pedestrian overpass planned to be built this financial year...Mandalay?s milling industries held back by sub-standard machinery...Real estate expo to be held in Mandalay...Retired old buses given a second life..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar to receive US$200 million for post-disaster relief...Tourists can?t stay away from Mandalay...President tours Genghis Khan Statue Complex in Mongolia...U Aung Lynn appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Myanmar to US...Myanmar scouts to join the club...Euromoney names KBZ Myanmar?s best bank...KOICA New President visits Myanmar as the first visiting of the Southeast Asia..... "OPINION": "Invest in education and reap the rewards" - Kyaw Thura.....ARTICLE: "A new chapter in Myanmar-China relationship?" - Thein Aye.....POEM: Our Guiding Star - Pho Thit