LOCAL NEWS: ?Proud? Lashio residents expect VP to highlight ethnic issues; Private sector considers new film industry award; Singapore Association of Myanmar to organise 16th Charity Bazaar; At least six dead in Mandalay train crash; Positive signs for tourism in January; Traffic police to bring order to profiteering; Parties hold coordination meeting; Bills, proposals and questions: hluttaw members get down to work; U Thein Sein named president; Climate change complicating malaria fight; MMC Fun Run attracts more than 400 participants; India launches visa-on-arrival; MPF offers affordable hep B vaccine; Delta mangrove project set to expand; Performing arts institution gets back on its feet; Parties prepare to relaunch journals; Myeik conservation talks scheduled for this month; New dive resort planned for Myeik?s Khayingwa Island; Blind students taking up foreign languages; Aid, investment needed to avert food crisis; HK uni, SKorea govt offer scholarships...BUSINESS & PROPERTY: Newest banks join KBZ to extend networks; SPDC signs Special Economic Zone law into effect on Jan 27; Gem workers predict a big year as NPT grows, tourists return; Country needs new geological map to tap rare earths, says former mining minister; Rabbit goodies sales spurred by New Year; Wholesalers exploiting truck load limit reduction: sources; More skilled workers raising build levels...TIMEOUT: The life of a cartoonist: always drawn to satire; Singing contest to expand; U Moe Hein?s final poems published; Books donated to Universities? Library; Indian actor in Myanmar to celebrate anniversary...INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Murdoch launches iPad magazine, ?The Daily?; Indian website offers single men a range of virtual wives; McWill phones out; CDMA dictionary...EVENTS FLASH: Concert at Chatrium Hotel; Guitar concert at Inya Lake; Sein Gay Har competitions...YOUR STARS...FLIGHT SCHEDULES.....N.B. SINCE THIS ISSUE HAS NO INDEX PAGE, NAVIGATE FROM "LOCAL NEWS" TO THE OTHER SECTIONS