DOMESTIC NEWS: Confiscated farmland returned...Wives of Hluttaw Speakers donate lunch to patients in 1000-bed Hospital, Nay Pyi Taw...Republic of the Union of Myanmar Union Election CommissionAnnouncement 116/2018 13th Waxing of Wagoung, 1380 ME(24 August 2018)...Myanmar Investment Commission Meeting (13/2018) held...Ethnic traditional cultural dances at National Landmark Garden, Nay Pyi Taw...Heroin, Yaba worth over Ks 3.5 million seized in Katha, Htigyaing...UEC member U Soe Rae departs for Sri Lanka...55 dams, reservoirs overflow through spillways into rivers...One feared dead in flash flood in Yenanchaung, two bridges washed by floods in Kyauktaga...Progress on financial inclusion in Myanmar presented to industry, experts, authorities in Mandalay...Flower and Lover...He Little Narcotic...Integrated habitat development for conserving bees, birds, fishes...Nirvana Exhorter...Sithu Daw KyanMa Ma Centenarian...Is obsession on Facebookgood or bad for you?.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Over 360,000 tourists visit Myanmar via Tachilek border this year...Mung beans, pigeon peas likely to remain in warehouses next year...Inflation rate rises to 5.02 per cent in July...External trade with Italy increases by $25 million this year...Private sector export of forest product decreases by $17 million...Import surpasses export in Myanmar-Thailand bilateral border trade...MoU on Education signed between Myanmar, Austria...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing visits Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow...New Dawbon bridge commissioned into service...Medical devices import to be exempted from commercial tax.....OPINION: "Investment in research programs at higher institutions of learning is welcome".....ARTICLE: "Lots casting Festival to choose recipients of alms mealrecipients" - By Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja, Sithu Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt