DOMESTIC NEWS: State Counsellor to discuss peace initiative... Thousands of farmland confiscation cases unresolved by previous gov?t... Crops on 12,815 acres in Kyaukse damaged by hailstorms... Military helicopter crashes into reservoir, pilots rescued... Yangon Region to develop industrial zones... Patent laws to be enacted... Nay Pyi Taw Council formed... Army bristles at U Shwe Mann?s message to DSA... Six-wheel truck overturns near Sittaung Bridge... Woman charged with handbag theft... Methamphetamine,yaba confiscated in Taninthayi Region... Yaba and ice seized... Welding electrodes from Thiri Hintha Dockyard stolen... Fire breaks out near A-1 construction... Small enterprises forced to shut down their business in Mandalay Industrial Zone... Summer paddy yield high but price are dropping... Rubber price expected to rise at end of April... Emerald Rural Development Plan to be launched in 60 villages in Yangon... Myananda Lake in Ngathayauk Town drying up... Police, firemen distribute water to villages in Magwe Region..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker receives Chargé d?affaires a.i. of Georgia Embassy... President U Htin Kyaw accepts credentials of ambassadors of Sweden, Ireland, Timor-Leste... President U Htin Kyaw felicitates South African counterpart... President U Htin Kyaw felicitates Netherland King... President U Htin Kyaw felicitates Netherland PM... FM Daw Aung San Suu Kyi felicitates South African counterpart... FM Daw Aung San Suu Kyi felicitates Netherland counterpart... UCSB Chairman holds talks with UNDP?s country director... Union Minister for Information holds talks with three delegations over media cooperation... Japanese companies keen to invest in Myanmar... Mine blast injures two Dutch tourists, one interpreter..... "OPINION": "Good governance versus the wish lists"-Khin Maung Aye..... ARTICLE: "Development and Human Rights"-Dr Khine Khine Win