DOMESTIC NEWS: Stock market overshadows real estate... Mandalay to fight to curb betel chewing... Pontoon bridges to become International standard port within three months... Exam successes abound in Kyimyindine... Visitors flock to Kyaing Taung waterfall on New Year Day... Sustainable Milinda library opened on April 17... President U Htin Kyaw, wife Daw Su Su Lwin make food donation in Thongwa Tsp... Daw Aung San Suu Kyi comforts patients at Nay Pyi Taw General Hospital... Water shortages hit Keng Tung?s hillside residents... Exceeding speed limit injures 11... Pedestrian seriously injured in traffic accident... Vehicle turned over on Yangon- Nay Pyi Taw Highway... Traffic accident damages vehicle... Police arrest snatcher in Pyigyidagun... Car accident injures 21 passengers... Four die of suffocation in Natogyi... Freight loaders in short supply on previous years... Pea exports see higher profits this FY... Water supplied for villagers in Bago Region... Wethtigan police clear weeds... Restoration of Shwedagon?s Buddha images set to begin... More children with type-1 diabetes... Needy amputees to receive free prosthetic legs... Fly-over money to go to much needed rural development..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: IFC investment in port will boost transport sector... MWEA sends delegate to international market analysis training program in Viet Nam... First Pulitzer Prize winner Myanmar... India?s demand for Myanmar beans sees prices soar... Logistical barriers hurting Myanmar-Korea ground sesame exports... Jovago?s Myanmar hotel network to hit four figures... US$60 billion needed to improve Myanmar?s transport infrastructure..... "OPINION": "Let?s work together to reform the education system" - Aye Min Soe..... ARTICLE: "ENGLISH, WHY SHOULD WE LEARN IT? - ENGLISH, A LIVING LANGUAGE IN A LIVING WORLD." - U KHIN MAUNG (A retired diplomat)