HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYITHU HLUTTAW: Motion to fight terrorism, to provide securiy in Rakhine approved...AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: Amyotha Hluttaw holds Q&A session, discusses bill.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: VP U Myint Swe attends National Level Social Protection Committee meeting...Certificate Course in Basic Diplomatic Skills (40/2018) concludes...Free course on fish farming to be opened at Hlawga hatchery this month...?Patent and Copyright? forum to be held this Sunday...Continued heavy rainfall causes shortage of raw fish...UEHRD provides aid, resettlement to boat crash survivors...All-round youth development festival to be held in Mandalay...Magway?s Bailey bridge 80% complete...Rakhine State Chief Minister meets boat crash survivors at Nga Khu Ya Reception Centre...School library opened in Letpadan Township...Birth of test tube baby becomes medical milestone in Myanmar...Independent journalists report from Maungtaw, Rakhine State...Union Election Commission Chairman receives UN Special Envoy...Senior General receives General Wei Fenghe...Sanitation services to be extended along Ayeyawady River...We will try to win: Shan United head coach.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Win Myint delivers speech at ACMECS CEO Forum...State Counsellor separately receives Timor-Leste?s former President, Chinese Defence Minister, US senior official...Nearly 166,500 foreign day-trippers via Tachilek since April...Sales of plots for Thilawa SEZ Zone B available...Manipur Chambers, MCCI hold business networking event...The Committee for Implementation of Recommendations on Rakhine State...Union Minister for the Office of the State Counsellor receives UNSG?s Special Envoy...Speaker Mahn Win Khaing Than receives UNSG?s Special Envoy on Myanmar.....OPINION: "Through coexistence, understanding, let?s march towards Great Mekong Region?s goal of peace and development".....ARTICLE: "The flash floods are getting more severe" - By Khin Maung Myint