DOMESTIC NEWS: State Counsellor delivers speech at CONSAL XVII...Myanmar Press Council to conduct second paper reading session...Some 89 river terns researched in 2018...Onion prices continue to drop in domestic market...Performance of Kachin State Government in Second Year in Office...Voices of the dignitaries and participants at 17th Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians (CONSAL XVII) in Nay Pyi Taw...Eleventh Regional Working Group (RWG) meeting of the Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) & Friends of the Lower Mekong (FLM) convenes...Meeting held to establish movie studio, skill training school...Luyechuns travel around Ngwesaung, Bagan, Inle...Sixth National Press Awards ceremony held...Rain or thundershowers to continue in Kachin, Shan, Kayah, Kayin and Mon...Construction of a modern Mingalar Market in 30 months...Firefighters keep watch on area where garbage fire broke out...University Football Tournament 2018 launched in Yangon.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President accepts credentials of newly-accredited Ambassadors...State Counsellor receives Ambassadors from Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Marshall Islands separately...Yangon Region government to allocate exhibition space for 2019 international expos...Myanmar imports consumer goods worth $174 million within 20 days...Myanmar officials to visit India to discuss beans exports...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker U T Khun Myat receives US Ambassador to Myanmar...Senior General receives outgoing British ambassador...Antoine Hey meets MFF for better future of Myanmar football.....OPINION: "Advancing national welfare via trade".....ARTICLE: "Moeyungyi Wildlife Sanctuary" - By Maung Tha (Archaeology))..."Good hand hygiene: A simple, cost-effective way to save lives and transform the quality of health care at all levels" - Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia