HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: Second Pyidaungsu Hluttaw?s 9th regular session holds 7th-day meeting.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: State Counsellor: If people are qualified, it will be difficult for an unqualified government to be in power...Information and news media coordination meeting held...Journalists visit Maungtaw, report on security, resettlement, repatriation readiness...Preparations complete for All-Round Youth Development Festival (Mandalay)...State Counsellor visits vocational training school, computer skills training school in Pakokku, Kyaukpadaung...State Counsellor?s youth literary talk in Mandalay to broadcast live...Flood Warning...Myanmar Daily Weather Report...Union Supreme Court receives 882 criminal cases, 1,427 civil lawsuits from Jan-June.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union Attorney-General U Tun Tun Oo receives British Ambassador...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker receives US Ambassador to Myanmar...Pyithu Hluttaw Bill Committee Chairman receives Myanma Real Estate Agents...Union Minister U Thaung Tun arrives back from Indonesia...Union Minister Dr. Win Myat Aye receives British Ambassador...Travel Authorization for Rakhine State already granted to the staff of UNDP and UNHCR to conduct assessment survey for the operationalization of the MoU...Union Minister Dr. Pe Myint receives British Ambassador...Bangladesh Foreign Minister arrives in Nay Pyi Taw...Myanmar beaten by Thailand in AFF U-16 Championship semifinal.....OPINION: "Cornerstone of tourism industry".....ARTICLE: "Basic function and benefits of reservoirs" - By Aung Zaw Min