DOMESTIC NEWS: 6th JICM on NCA held...Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control meeting 1/2017 ...Union Supreme Court sits to pass judgment and hear cases...Workshop on General Principles of Federalism...Prawn hatcheries to be set up in Myeik and Dawei...Neo-Voluntary-Health-Care Training opened...Rakhine State MPs calls for more transparency of govt?s works...New Yangon Water Bus jetties to be opened...Maungtaw authorities hold talks with local companies over resettlement and rehabilitation...Seven trapped, four injured in coal mine blast...Postponed Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan qualifier to be set in coming March.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Pope in Myanmar...Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker leaves for Republic of Korea...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker visits Japan...Tourists arrivals drop by 11 per cent as of October...Joint venture companies granted to import agricultural machinery...MIC describes export-oriented investments grant tax exemption...Senior General meets Pope Francis....."OPINION": "Join in youths all round development festival!" -.....ARTICLE: "Heartbeat of a mountain dweller in Nay Pyi Taw" - Lon Jon Sun Maing