DOMESTIC NEWS: Independence Day to be convened with five objectives...Towards people-centred development...U Win Myint receives MRCS chair...Red Cross Movement provides cash and utensils to returning local people...Opening Ceremony for Children?s Literature Festival in Monywa...Peace Music Festival Singing Contest, 2017 Level 2 and Peace Musical Songs...Ngwe Hnin mushrooms grow well in Myanmar...Free health care given to locals in Yathedaung, Rakhine...Public talk in Kawhmu Township...Displaced people return home in Buthidaung and Maungtaw.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: 17,000 took overseas jobs last month...Traders start to purchase pigeon bean and mung bean from local farmers...Myanmar-ASEAN trade exceeds $4.3 BN in first five months of this FY...Union Minister U Thein Swe receives US Ambassador...Rakhine State Social Affairs Minister, UNA meet locals in Buthidaung...Myanmar U-19 footballers in Japan...History hopes to repeat itself for Aung La N Sang....."OPINION": "We can overcome challenges withstrength of our unity" - Aye Min Soe..... ARTICLE: "Let?s work hand in hand with the government" - Khin Maung Myint