DOMESTIC NEWS: High qualification of computer science plays a key role in strengthening of economy - Faculty members to turn out students to become well-versed technicians...Significant night temperature...Yawgi Gonyi building opened, cash donated for Dhamma Gonyi building... (18-12-2011)...Mine explosion of insurgents destroys tension tower-213 of 230- KV Lawpita-Toungoo power grid...Myanmar Printers and Publishers Association meets...MFF holds Awarded Night...University/College Bodybuilding and Physical Culture Contest on 27 Dec...622 monks, people donate blood for 13th time...Talks on independence day held in Myeik...Nay Pyi Taw Council of Churches observes gathering service, get-together...Final of 12th Great Wall National Badminton Tournament held...Insurgents? mine blast destroys machinery of Public Works..... FOREIGN RELATIONS: Granddaughter of Thai King donates Pitakat treatises to SSMNC Chairman...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann visits India...Myanmar delegation led by Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann arrives back..... "PERSPECTIVES": "The fourth estate, infallible and reliable"