DOMESTIC NEWS: Coord meeting held for All-Round Youth Development Festival (Mandalay)...Water purification tablets donated to flood victims in Thaton Township...Sesame seeds purchased only after acid-level testing...Myanmar Food & Bev, Myanmar Retail Sourcing Expo to be held this month...Orphans Reduction and Protection Association (Myanmar) officials visit social welfare philanthropic childcare centers in Pathein...38 dams, reservoirs overflow through spillways...Flood Bulletin...Myanmar Daily Weather Report.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Community-based tourism underway in Danu Self-Administered Zone...Union Minister: All religious bodies, individuals working in unity, mutual respect...Union Minister Lt-Gen Kyaw Swe leaves for Indonesia...Union Minister for International Cooperation U Kyaw Tin attends the 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers? Meeting and Related Ministerial Meetings ASEAN Foreign Ministers welcome the establishment of Independent Commission of Enquiry by the Government of Myanmar...Delegation led by Foreign Minister of Japan arrives in Myanmar...Myeik tourism association meets with businessmen from Thai sister city to promote bilateral tourism...Tachilek border hosted over 282,000 globetrotters since April...July?s trading on YSX recorded highest this year...Myanmar Food & Bev, Myanmar Retail Sourcing Expo to be held this month...Import outperforms export in bilateral trade with Indonesia in two months...Union Minister: Youth participation in socio-economic development and regional development will further benefit the country...Myanmar beat Thailand, securing second place in Alpine Cup 2018.....OPINION: "Benefits of community- based tourism".....ARTICLE: "Floods are not natural disasters; hence, humans should be able to counter them" - By Khin Maung Myint