DOMESTIC NEWS: Programme aims to improve lives of street kids...Border Affairs Ministry welcomes ethnic excursion groups...President U Htin Kyaw inspects Upper Paung Laung Hydropower Project...Defence Services release statement on Myitkyina shooting incident...Myanmar moves towards establishment of Civil Service Academy...Bus conductors to cease collecting fares...Illegal sawn timber seized from overturned vehicle...Yaba seized in Nawnghkio and Sintgaing...Heroin confiscated in Pinlebu...Heroin and Yaba seized in Tachilek...Man found dead in taxi...Organic certificates to be issued to Myanmar farmers...Car sale centre to be built near junction of North-South Dagon...Five new bus-stops for BRT bus route...River protection works along Ayeyawady, Chindwin...Sagaing receives K100m fund for disaster preparedness...Yangon Region Govt to provide Ks 4.8 billion to YESC...Retaining earth wall of drain repaired in Matupi..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Rights for workers - Efforts are being made to enable all migrant workers to enjoy labour rights within Thailand?s legal framework: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi...France to power Myanmar with environmentally friendly electricity from river currents in rurals...UN special rapporteur visits Sittwe...Correction...Deputy Attorney-General meets with Japanese Ambassador...U Hau Do Suan appointed as Permanent Representative of Myanmar to UN...Union Information Minister receives local & foreign guests...Around 300,000 Myanmar people travelling abroad every year...EU to examine 20 local cold storage factories...Myanmar?s natural forests to be UNESCO listed by 2018...73 bridges of the India-Myanmar-Thailand highway to be renovated within 18 months..... "OPINION": "The interface between unemployment and incapacity" - Kyaw Thura.....ARTICLE: "Have We Overcome the Severest El Nino?" - Khin Maung Myint