DOMESTIC NEWS: Mandalay Region observes International Literacy Day 2014…Mobile vocational training course No 3 concludes…Rakhine State MCWSC provides assistance for delivery room, home for the aged in Thandwe…First-aid course given to university students in Sagaing…Citizenship scrutiny cards issued to eligible citizens…Bahan Township Writers Association holds AGM…Vice President Dr Sai Mauk Kham inspects socio-economic undertakings in Lashio…More energy needed to fulfill basic needs of people…Village library put into service in Waw Tsp… Knowledge shared to eradicate poppy cultivation…YUE to organize Business Forum, gettogether on 13 Sept…Sales of pesticides, fertilizers inspected in Myeik…Up and down waterway changed under Sagaing Bridge (Inwa)… Progress of long term energy master plan discussed…Myanmar Companies Act…Myanmar Physiotherapy Association drafts physiotherapy council law….. EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President explains Myanmar reforms in talks with Dutch dignitaries… South Korea to fund $20 million Myanmar Development Institute in Nay Pyi Taw…Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Pyithu Hluttaw meets Secretary of Vietnam Communist Party…GM of Myanmar- Wanbao Co calls on Union Minister… ASEAN Connectivity Coordinating Committee meets….."PERSPECTIVES":"A hard race to front business competitiveness" by Aung Khin…