HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: Joint Bill Committee suggests exclusion of microenterprises in SME bill: Nay Pyi Taw, 13 March — The Joint Bill Committee at the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw on Friday put forward its findings with respect to the bill of the development of small and medium enterprises on which two Houses held different opinions. The bill should exclude the section of microenterprises as it is mainly for SMEs, the joint bill committee said in its report of findings, suggesting the deletion of its definition of the term ?worker? in order not to contradict the existing staff regulations and rules. The union taxation bill of 2015 came under discussion, with union-level officials making clarifications on the bill. The Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Rural Development, the Ministry of Electric Power, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Mines explained their tax collection systems across the country. The parliament will meet on 16 March."..... OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Drafting bills must comply with existing laws: Amyotha Hluttaw?s bill committee...Ceasefire talks likely to resume in a few days...Govt increases annual spending on better health care: Vice President Dr Sai Mauk Kham...Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw meets visitors...MRTV re-transmission comes into operations in Hinthada...Mon ethnics in Mandalay Region develop language education...Matriculation examination runs smoothly in Mandalay Region..Home for the aged invites donations...Rural area in Tatkon Township illuminated with solar panels...Well-wishers donate cash and kind to nunnery...Rural road improves living standard of residents...Cancer foundation to admit patients at three new building...MCDC allows construction of water-throwing pandals around moat...Authorities return nine students to parents...Matriculation students sit mathematics on third day...25 tentatively selected players of Myanmar start training... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein meets Malaysian prime minister...Academics recommend people-centered ASEAN-India partnership...Myanmar welcomes extension of India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway to link up with Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam...Royal Haskoning DGV Co. provides internship awards to MMU students...JAPAN grants US$228,659 for monastic school, rural health branches in Mon and Kayin States...Myanmar, Indonesia focus on bilateral cooperation...Mitsubishi becomes first private sector donor to the Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund in Myanmar...Huawei gives scholarships to 50 Myanmar students, donates new ICT curriculum... "PERSPECTIVES": "Rote learning is not for entire life" by Myint Win Thein..... ARTICLE: "COMPETENT Workers" by Kyaw Win