HLUTTAW MEETINGS: Monetary and financial restrictions related to trade and investment eased: Deputy Minister - Pyithu Hluttaw regular session continues for 18th day...Reforms must be undertaken for financial and legal institutional development during the drafting process of monetary and capital market law: MPs [Amyotha Hluttaw - 18th day]..... OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Finance & Revenue Ministry holds monsoon tree planting ceremony 2012...Constructive Engineers holds Green Seminar...K 400,000 per 100 baskets of paddy purchased in Dekkhinathiri Tsp...Kayin State Chief Minister provides flood victims with foodstuff...Gov?t adopts plans for timber certification, invites private investment in establishment of forest plantations...Meeting on swift implementation of socio-economic development held...Course on rehabilitation of trafficked victims conducted...Reform strategy clarified...MMCWA?s tailoring course No (1/2012) concludes...Summer paddy harvested on model plot in KhinU Township...Collective tree growing ceremony held in Kyonpyaw...UMFCCI holds workshop on ICT development...Saplings distributed to people in Ottwin Township...Union Health Minister inspects Specialist Hospital (Yangon)...Flood bulletin for Sittoung, Thanlwin, Shwegyin Rivers...Noteworthy amounts of rainfall (31-7-2012)..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: U Than Swe presents Credentials to US President...Chinese delegation observes printing industry of Myanmar...Guangxi Zhuang delegation visits Shwedagon Pagoda...ASEAN multi-sectoral workshop concluded...Meeting on Hajj Pilgrimage held..... "PERSPECTIVES": "To attract more FDIs"