HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: Ninth regular session of the 2nd Pyidaungsu Hluttaw commences...PYITHU HLUTTAW: First-day meeting of 2nd Pyithu Hluttaw?s 9 th regular session held...AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: First-day meeting of 2nd Amyotha Hluttaw?s 9th regular session held.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Union Government holds Waso robes offering ceremony in Nay Pyi Taw...Health care and food provided for people in Kayin State flood relief camps...Mandalay tax collection sees Ks24 billion...Myanmar National Airlines to provide charter flight services...Yangon?s remote village gets access to fresh tube well water after nearly a century...Onion growers in Kyaukpadaung Township experience losses...Brown sesame, peanut prices high in domestic market...15,000 acres of monsoon paddy to be grown across Meiktila Township...Union Minister Lt-Gen Kyaw Swe meets new officers of Anti-Narcotics Task Force...President?s Office announces a series of arrests, seizures acting on tip-offs given by the people...First field visit to Buthidaung, Maungtaw townships in Rakhine State, by Technical Working Group...Press conference held in Loikaw over Bogyoke Aung San statue.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar to host 10th meeting of ASEAN education ministers, dialogue partners in October...Regional trade exceeds $2 billion in first two months of the interim period...LPDR Minister of Foreign Affairs and party arrive in Nay Pyi Taw.....OPINION: "Education, punishment and job creation needed to fight electrofishing".....ARTICLE: "Legal Empowerment" - By Khin Cho Ohn (The Office of the Union Attorney-General)