HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYITHU HLUTTAW: Pyithu Hluttaw discusses confiscated lands, puts motion for union-level policy on record...AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: Second Amyotha Hluttaw’s tenth regular session holds its 13th-day meeting.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: State Counsellor calls for right attitude towards leprosy patients to end discrimination against them...Myanmar moves to implement child labour eradication program...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing addresses DSTA graduates...‘Iron, steel demand growing every year’ ...Knowledge sharing workshop on rubber standards, production held in Bago...Republic of the Union of Myanmar Office of the President Order 45/2018 5th Waxing of Nattaw, 1380 ME 12 December 2018...Head of organization confirmed...Invitation to young writers for Sunday Special...Yaba pills worth K 585 mln seized in Maungtaw Township...Police seize 1.3 mln yaba pills in Sittway Township...Police confiscate over Ks 1 bln worth of drugs in Indaw Tsp...Nay Pyi Taw holds Christmas Opera Musical Festival...MFF launches referee course in Yangon...Myawady trounce Gandamar in MFF Women’s League 2nd week.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor receives UNSG’s Special Envoy on Myanmar...President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind, First Lady visit Shwedagon Pagoda...President of India formally opens agricultural research center, rice bio park...Pyithu Hluttaw Deputy Speaker receives Canadian diplomat from National Diplomatic Institute...Union Minister for Investment and Foreign Economic Relations, U Thaung Tun receives US-ASEAN Business Council...Union Minister U Ohn Win receives Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar...Deputy Minister U Kyi Min receives Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation delegation...Migrant workers returning even after camp closure...Ayeyawady Dolphin Conservation and Ecotourism team wins Best Community Involvement in Tourism Award...Australian Foreign Minister arrives in Myanmar...Australian Foreign Minister observes development progress in Rakhine State...Union Minister Dr. Win Myat Aye receives delegation from Southeast Asia Department of Asian Development Bank...Japan, Myanmar sign two exchange of notes on development assistance...ICOE invites complaints, accounts related with allegation of human rights in Rakhine...First Korea-Myanmar Film Festival coming to Yangon...19th ASEAN University Games continue in Nay Pyi Taw.....OPINION: "A friend in need is a friend indeed".....ARTICLE: "“The Trade Unions are trying their best, while the ILO is assisting with efforts to bring everyone under the Social Security System net.” - U Win Naing, Representative of the Employers....."Roundtable Discussions on the reform program in connection with social security benefits" - By Khin Yadanar PHOTO MAY OO MOE (Continued from Yesterday)