DOMESTIC NEWS: NSSA presents national level skill certificates to over 660 trainees...Myanmar Literacy & Regional Development Service Association holds International Literacy Day 2018 ceremony...Union Minister inspects silt/sand covered farmland in Swa, Bago Region...Ministry of Education observes International Literacy Day...One stop business registration system planned...wo men killed in shooting in Kyaukme Township...Union Solidarity and Development Party presents its policy, stance and work program...Fingerlings distributed to flood-hit farmers...Vocational training benefits people in Chaungzon Township...Stimulant tablets, weapons, bullets seized in Nay Pyi Taw...Over one ton of illegal timber seized in Pinlebu Township...Let?s collect ripe rose-apples...Is it an unsafe WORLD ?...The Salon: a tribe on the verge of extinction...Mingalar Par Sayarma.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Viet Nam, Myanmar mark 1st Anniversary of Comprehensive Cooperation Partnership...Over 400,000 visitors enter Myanmar through Tachilek checkpoint during the past five months...Agro products Export down by $186 million in five months...Import shows increase of $513 million in past five months...Consumer goods import rises by $195 million.....OPINION: "Technical assistance from WHO needed to intensify efforts to control dengue, eliminate malaria".....ARTICLE: "Myanmar Traditional Aquatic Festival in the month of Tawthalin" - By Maha Saddhamma Jotika Dh