HLUTTAW SESSIONS:-PYITHU HLUTTAW: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw approves tax exemptions for mineral commodities..... OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: One more H1N1 death reported...Ammunition and explosives seized in Myawady...Two suspects arrested in Buthidaung Township...Rakhine garment factory will create thousands of jobs...Vice President at ground breaking for housing project for government employees in Mandalay...Weather forecast for today...Local onion prices increasing due to low supply...More than 1,500 hotels and guesthouses granted licences as of end of June 2017...Express vehicle overturns, seriously injure seven people...Two motorbikes collide, injure four people...Gov?t to provide to enhance local sugar producing industry...Certificate of Recognition for 543 crops issued in conformity with the rules and regulations of the Seed Law...Tea leaf production increases with ?two row? plantation process...Tatmadaw issues opinion on use of the military rank and position nomenclature...Illegal goods confiscated at Yaypu and Mayanchaung.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Rakhine State receives Japanese passenger ship...Amyotha Hluttaw Deputy Speaker receives Czech ambassador...Strengthening China-Myanmar friendship discussed...State Counsellor receives UNDP Country Director, Israeli Agricultural Economics Professor...Sacha Inchi oil produced from Kengtung to be exported to Japan....."OPINION": "Procrastination is the cause of loss and destruction, to coin a phrase" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Yangon and Its Urban Fringe" - Moe Moe..."Step backwards to move forward" - Khin Maung Myint