DOMESTIC NEWS: Vice president calls for increase of community-driven development projects to reduce poverty…Ceasefire talks turn out ?fruitful results?: Ethnic parties…Media accreditation cards for AEM to be issued on 24 August…Waste water management for prevention of water pollution in Myanmar discussed… Deputy Home Affairs Minister meets human trafficking victims…Social groups donate food to flood victims in Bago…Information Ministry officials to play against Defence Ministry in football finals…Amyotha Hluttaw (Upper House) Speaker tours Mandalay Region to oversee development projects…Information Minister discusses media reform with press council…Diamond orbs and umbrellas hoisted atop pagoda…Traditional performing arts concert held under auspices of Ministry of Culture…ChaungU Township forms township philanthropic network…Myaungmya KBZ Branch donates eye surgical machine to social association…School council executive committee takes oaths…Mandalay Open Chess Tournament wraps up…Thandwe District to collect data on birth and death registration…Independence Day of India marked in Mandalay…Greening projects to be increased in Mandalay…Chicken processing factory to commence operation in September…..EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Muse Central Economic Zone to be completed in 2017…Oil and Gas Myanmar 2014 fair to be held 15-17 October…Military delegation returns from visit to Russia….."PERSPECTIVES": "Good infrastructures crucial for development of tourism industry" by Aung Khin…..ARTICLE: "International Myanmar Studies Conference 2014 in Singapore and Myanmar Media" by Sayar Mya…