DOMESTIC NEWS: THANE unlikely to move towards Myanmar...Electricity bill readings on 1-6 Jan...4th Nay Pyi Taw traffic rules educative talk on 7-11 Jan...Outstanding Red Cross leaders honoured in Mon State...Basic Computer Course, Basic Maintenance Course opened...Ayeyawady Region in sports activities...Health knowledge disseminated...Mass walk activities organized...Pre-Primary School organizes sports events...Cash donated to funds for repairing bridges...Monsoon paddy harvested on model plot...MRIA to buy rice reserves...Earth-caring knowledge shared...BEPS/BEMS English Language Proficiency and Mathematics Skills Contests held...Kungyan village post-primary school in Butalin Tsp gets new school building...Blood donated at North Okkalapa General Hospital...Passing-out parade of sub-police inspector course No. 69/2011 held...Road constructed in Labutta Tsp...Fish released into lake...Winners in basic education primary and middle school level English language and mathematics skill contest announced...Fish and Prawn Entrepreneurs Association AGM on 31 Dec...Kayin State Health Department gives patients free medical treatment...Sagaing Region Chief Minister?s Cup Inter-District Football Tournament (Open) concludes...Sitagu Tetlan Free Eye Hospital opens in Loikaw...Bokpyin Township harvests model paddy plot...Outstanding students awarded in Letpadan Tsp...MMCWA President presents cash aid for conjoined twin operations...MRCS provides aids to displaced people in Kachin State...Twenty trainees complete midwifery course in Paung Tsp...Fire drill demonstrated in Pathein...Medicines provided to TB patients...Furniture Course opened...Talks on environmental conservation organized...Myanma Gems Emporium continues for third day...Waterway of Ayeyawady Bridge (Pakokku) designated...Timetable of National Literary Award-presenting ceremony changes...Vocational courses open...Fuel-wood distributed...ECG donated to township hospital..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: e-Visa system to be launched soon..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Encourage students to do sports".....ARTICLE: "Marketable sunflower plants thriving in Tatkon" Byline: Phyo Sanda Myint, Photos: Khin Maung Win (Kyemon)