DOMESTIC NEWS: Independence Day celebrated in Maungtaw, Buthidaung...President hosts 70th Anniversary Independence Day dinner...Nay Pyi Taw celebrates 70th Independence Day... 70th Anniversary Independence Day flag hoisting, saluting ceremony held in Yangon...Ceremony to confer titles for bravery...NLD HQ celebrates 70th Anniversary Independence Day...Runner hit by a speeding car in Mandalay...Myingyan Combined-Cycle Gas Turbine Power Plant begins feeding 143MW to National Grid...Yellow-breasted bunting added to critically endangered species...MPTA to request govt to scale down sulphur levels...Pyapon post office earns Ks17.1 million within nine months...Children?s Literature Festival to be held 6-8 January in Yangon...Interviewing officials of Children?s Literature Festival Yangon...Tatmadaw captures KIA posts...Outstanding students from Myanmar placed in top-9 of Go Green in City 2017 competition...70th Independence Day celebrated nationwide...Sagaing United, MNL?s newest team, to be officially introduced to public...Shan United ready for Charity Cup 2018.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Profit-sharing between rubber employers, employees fixed at 4:6 ratio...State honoured us for defending the sovereignty of the nation ? Lt. Col Thura Zaw Lwin Soe...President hosts 70th Anniversary Independence Day dinner...SG Min Aung Hlaing attends ceremony to hand out medals, certificates...Foreign Heads of State send felicitations to President...Foreign Heads of State send felicitations to Vice Presidents U Myint Swe and U Henry Van Thio...Foreign Heads of State send felicitations to State Counsellor ....."OPINION": "Political resolution of 70th anniversary Independence Day".....ARTICLE: "Keep Our Independence Perpetuated" - By Htun Tin Htun