DOMESTIC NEWS: President calls for increasing budget, investment to achieve 7 per cent growth target of GDP...Number of florists on wheels increases in Mandalay...Children invited to take part in lantern cartooning competition in Mandalay...Zoological gardens to be upgraded...Chicken breeders face difficulties with rising price of chicken feeds...One motorcyclist killed in traffic accident...Number of container trucks increasing year on year...High global crude oil price increases domestic fuel oil price...Yangon Water Bus starts to run on 6 October...Myanmar?s population reaches more than 53 m on 1 October 2017...Authorities meet 10000 Muslims from Buthidaung at border as villagers plan to go to Bangladesh...Rice delivered to villagers in northern Rakhine.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union Minister holds talks with Bangladeshi FM over Northern Rakhine issue...Diplomats visit three different areas in N-Rakhine...Protestors denounce foreign interference, bias media over N-Rakhine issue...President U Htin Kyaw receives H.E. General Ngo Xuan Lich and party...State Counsellor meets with President and VC of University of Hong Kong...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing welcomes Viet Nam Minister of National Defence....."OPINION": "Eradication of External Destructive Elements with Our Unity of Strength" Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "The world deserves to know the truth about terrorist attacks in Rakhine" - Thidar