DOMESTIC NEWS: Trainees of midwifery course decorated with caps...Work coordination meetings for planning and performing arts competitions held in Mon State...Driver charged of overloading truck...Agricultural equipment provided by Nay Pyi Taw Council...Multiplier librarian course conducted in Nay Pyi Taw Council Area...Taxation knowledge shared to (sic) students in Gwa...Union Sports Minister views Regions and States Champion Challenge Cup 2012 sports events...Basic Governance Reform Short-Term Course opened in Kyaukpyu...Library, furniture, books donated in Pwintbyu...Flood Warning...Nanpan Bridge formally inaugurated...Special Refresher Course No 47 for Basic education teachers concludes...Coord meeting on development of health sector held...Outstanding students, teachers honoured...Short-term course for reform of governance opened...Cash and kind donated to flood victims in Shwegyin...Farm worker dies in explosion of grenade...Tornado hits offices, schools in Paung...CSC ISSUED; AGM HELD; CITIZENSHIP CARDS ISSUED [photos]...Water level raises at Ayeyawady River along Sagaing-Mingun Road...Traffic rules talked (sic) at basic education school...Strong winds hit Dagon East Township...Teaching aids provided to needy students...Stake driven for two-storey massage training school...Educative talks on taxation given in Haka...Noteworthy amounts of rainfall (11-8-2012)..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Turkish FM and delegation on tour of Rakhine State...U Thant Kyaw presents Credentials to UN Secretary-General...U Myo Lwin concurrently accredited to Maldives...UNESCO Director-General concludes visit...Initial workshop on Marine Products Capacity- Building to Improve Foreign Market Demand...Toyo-Thai Corporation Public Co Ltd, Electric Power Department signs MoU..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Our true identity" ["...every one of us or in other words every national race of the Union has the duty towards preservation, promotion and propagation of the national culture serving as our true identity."].....ARTICLE: "We must cooperate with the government with awareness, consciousness and sympathy"(2) ["...to preserve prevailing peace in Rakhine State and prevent hairsplitting of the case as religious persecution or human rights violation."] Maung Hmat (Pyapon)