HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYITHU HLUTTAW: Second Pyithu Hluttaw 14th regular session holds 16th-day meeting...AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: 16th-day meeting of 14th regular session of Second Amyotha Hluttaw.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: 45th Rakhine State Day commemoration held in Sittway...National Urban Policy Forum held in Nay Pyi Taw...MNHRC conducts advanced human rights course...Joint Committee on Amending 2008 Constitution holds meeting 69/2019...MOGE signs agreements with private companies on development of offshore block A-6...Union Minister for IFER receives Executive Vice-President of Woodside Energy Ltd...Mass rally in Maubin shows support for State Counsellor...Police seizes heroin, stimulant tablets in Muse...Hluttaw Committee scrutinizes completion of government pledges...Three more companies expected to list on YSX next year...Land in Myaungtagar Zone, Phase 1 plots put on sale committee sorting land types - By Nyein Nyein...Union Supreme Court sits to pass judgement, hear cases...Myanmar Daily Weather Report (Issued at 4:00 pm Monday 16th December, 2019)...Yangon Region commemorates 45th Rakhine State Day with festive event...New outpatient building inaugurated at Ywar Thar Gyi Mental Health Hospital...Magway Chief Minister supports local youth festival in person...MFF president inspects work at Thuwunna Stadium...Medical check-up conducted ahead of 2020 Myanmar National League.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Vietnamese Prime Minister lands in Nay Pyi Taw...WHO’s public health prize handed over to National Archive Department...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker U T Khun Myat receives Vietnamese Ambassador...Myanmar, India election commissions hold joint capacity building training...Japanese Princess Yoko departs from Myanmar...H & S Union Minister attends ceremony for malaria program...MOHS, WHO organize workshop on standard packaging legislation...Union Minister Dr Win Myat Aye receives NIS delegation.....OPINION: "Seventy years since independence".....ARTICLE: "Viet Nam-Myanmar: Comprehensive Cooperative and Sustainable Partnership" - By Dr. Luan Thuy Duong (Vietnam Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Myanmar)