DOMESTIC NEWS: Pagodas, stupas and religious edifices across nation thronged with people who perform meritorious deeds...Slight earthquake hits 90 miles northwest of Myitkyina...Flood victims provided with relief aids in Zeyathiri Township...Shwedagon Pagoda crowded with pilgrims on Fullmoon Day of Waso [photo]...Union Minister attends launching of showrooms at Zabuthiri Specialist Hospital...Health care services inspected...Six injured in Chauk factory fire...Kayin State Chief Minister provides flood victims with foodstuff, relieving their suffering...Bago Region Computer Entrepreneurs Association to be constituted on 5 Aug...PRIZE AWARDED; SAPLINGS PLANTED; CHILD RIGHTS TALKED (sic) [photo]...School uniforms, stationery, cash assistance provided to students...Cash for school furniture donated to BEHS...Production of quality fertilizer discussed...Menace of narcotic drugs talked (sic)...Farmlands flooded in some villages of Toungoo Township...Citizenship scrutiny cards issued in Launglon Township...Farmers urged to apply GAP system in cultivation of paddy...Cooperative Ltd holds AGM in Wakema...Truck hits brick wall of BEHS, leaving 17 teachers and students injured...Mobile medical team provides free health care services...Union Election Commission offers robes, alms to members of the Sangha..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Amyotha Hluttaw Deputy Speaker receives Australia-based delegation...UN Special Rapporteur visits five detainees in Buthidaung Prison...International partners should stand behind Myanmar government to address Rakhine State?s complex issue: Ambassadors...Union F & R Minister calls for meeting goal of AEC by 2015..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Centres of excellence" [need for].....ARTICLES: "Happy?" by Nathan..."An Introduction To Insurance" Win Myint Han