DOMESTIC NEWS: Serve the country and its people straightforwardly - Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker...Electoral tribunal degazettes independent MP of Kachin State for election offence...Union Information Minister holds talks with BNI on ethnic media development...CBOs to form Minerals Extraction Monitoring Network...Military cemeteries in Yangon to ban picnickers, merrymakers, revelers...Yaba tablets seized in Nawnghkio and Loilem...Man charged with two mobile phones theft...Yaba seized in Mandalay...Vehicle overturns in Pyu...Police arrested a man for murder in Yedashe...Imported tilapia fingerlings to be distributed from Hlawga breeding station...Agarwood essential oil mills to be built in three Regions and States...City Taxi associations will be formed in Yangon...70 % of vision loss caused by preventable eye-diseases..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: cross-border support - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi holds talks with Thai PM on Myanmar migrant workers...President U Htin Kyaw receives World Bank delegation...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw speaker meets World Bank Managing Director...Yanghee Lee visits correctional facilities in Kachin...Myanmar Gems Emporium kicks off with five-fold jump in deposit rate for foreign buyers...400 workers to be employed at Thai electric plant...Three states ink MoU on implementation of LIMEC...Imported tilapia fingerlings to be distributed from Hlawga breeding station...Singapore Co to sell foodstuff and general merchandise...Offshore gas fields to produce over 600,000 million cubic feet next year...Japanese seafood businessmen eye Myanmar?s fishery sector...State Counsellor says Government working to turn conflict into friendship, trust and understanding...ILO to help reduce child labour in target communities under My-PECL...KOICA supports renovation to the School for Disabled Children in Mandalay..... "OPINION": "The benefits of mutual trust" - Kyaw Thura.....ARTICLE: "The Legend and archaeology of Mei La Mu Pagoda" - Maha Saddhamma Jotika dhaja Sithu Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt