DOMESTIC NEWS: Union minister inspects IPRD office, MRTV retransmitting station in Kawthoung...Office opened for developing Bogyoke Aung San?s biopic...Free medical treatment to be provided to 3,000 people in Buthidaung...Seminar on entrance exams held in Maungtaw...Estimated US$ 2 million worth of drugs seized...Construction ministry to build RC box culverts on Chauk-Singu-Bagan Road...Water quality research in Chindwin River extended one more year...Maw Tin Zun Pagoda festival to begin on 1 February...Hand-over of Village Development Funds held in Wuntho...Gov?t accelerates loan disbursement for SMEs...Children?s Literature Festival held for first time in North Okkalapa, Yangon...6. 702 acres of relinquished farmlands returned to rightful owners in Kalay...Petrified wood museum to be opened...Yangon United stays in top shape in MPT MNL 2018...Paul Peterson wins Leopalace 21 Myanmar Open Golf Tourney 2018.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: AHA Centre inspects repatriation offices...Children hold Tsunami Drill...Import of capital goods by private sector sees decline...Union Attorney-General receives UNICEF Resident Representative...Vegetable gum karaya market soars higher...Myanmar-Australia trade tops $128 million this FY...Border trade valued at US$ 6.33 billion...?There?s been no trace of threats. The villagers I?ve met did not seem to have any fear so that?s what we saw.” : H.E. Prof. Dr. Surakiart Sathirathai...Myanmar football teams to contest for 2020 Summer Olympics in Japan....."OPINION": "Public security, peace and stability".....ARTICLES: "The Floating Palace" - U Than Zaw (Grand-Pa) D.C.C.A (Day care Centre for the Aged)