DOMESTIC NEWS: MOI, KAS conduct training programme for civil service staff...MIC approves eight projects; to create 33,000 jobs...Yangon Region issues licences to over 340 hotels, over 100 guesthouses...Myanmar Motocross Competition 2019 to be held in Mandalay...Candle sparks fire in Paung Township; six houses gutted...Automobile manufacturing body seeks tax cuts for SKD truck, bus producers...ARIC endorses two manufacturing projects worth $2.06 mln, K1.78 bln...IFC to invest $800 mln in swine production; project to start in 17 months - By Nyein Nyein...President’s Office continues announcement of illegal drug arrests, seizures acting on tip-offs...Invitation to young writers for Sunday Special...SWRR Deputy Minister meets displaced person in Kachin State.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor meets with Japanese PM, attends 2nd Myanmar Investment Conference...Vice President U Henry Van Thio meets with Indonesian President, Vice President in Jakarta...VP U Henry Van Thio returns from Indonesia...ILO Centenary organized in conjunction with National Tripartite Dialogue Forum...Myanmar Team to partake in global robotics olympics for the third year...Swiss film crew tapes telecommunication progress in Myanmar...Myanmar-India border trade up $50 mln in 2018-2019 fiscal...Union Minister Thura U Aung Ko to attend 2019 Special AMCA Plus ROK Meeting...Myanmar beat Timor-Leste 6-1 in AFF HD Bank Futsal Championship 2019...East Timorese delegates visit National Football Academy (Yangon).....OPINION: "Self-confidence — invaluable heritage for posterity".....ARTICLE: "A little patch of heaven in Tee Mit Plains" - By Myint Naing Soe (Htee Hlaing Myay)..."Driving the growth of Yangon’s SMEs" - By Arkar Hein