DOMESTIC NEWS: Senior General Min Aung Hlaing honours outstanding soldiers, youths...Myanmar Scout delegates visit fellow scout associations in other countries...Media Council to elect new members in August...Myanmar Retailers Association requests rules regulating e-commerce websites...Giant whale found dead on Rakhine beach...Flood preparedness mock drill conducted in Khamti...Banning small-scale gold mines increases illegal gold miners...Unstable global situation leads to drop of rubber prices...MACA calls upon government to establish handicrafts centre...Union Minister Lt-Gen Ye Aung inspects regional development operations in Mon State, Taninthayi Region...Visitors throng Sittway Beach...Public talk held in Lanmadaw, Yangon...Ye Thway Ni wins bout at Lethwei Nation Championship.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Vice President U Myint Swe receives Chinese Communist Party delegation...Chinese Communist Party delegation visits Shwedagon Pagoda...Bilateral trade with the Netherlands exceeds $61 million in two months...Digital marketing to be set up at JATA Tourism Expo 2018...International Cooperative Day.....OPINION: "Freedom forged with discipline".....ARTICLE: "A visit to Bogyoke Aung San Museum (Yangon)" - By Khin Cho Cho Han (Mann Myay)