DOMESTIC NEWS: Literature, great valuable cultural heritage among national heritage being preserved in successive eras - Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham presents literary award winners...Lt-Gen Soe Win, wife Daw Than Than Nwe attend graduation dinner of 9th Intake of DSNPS...Sumitomo Golf Classic golf tournament to be held at Yetakhontaung Golf Club...1465 jade lots sold at Mid-Myanma Gems Emporium 2011...Students take part in track and field competitions...Body-building and Physical Culture Contest commences...Union Minister U Kyaw Hsan inspects high-tech land reclamation (369 acres) in Ayinlo Village in Pyinmana...Fire breaks out in Mingala Taungnyunt Tsp, leaves 17 dead, 83 injured - 140 households accommodated at relief camps...Model paddy plot harvested...Agriculture and livestock breeding discussed...New blood midwifery turned out...Union Minister hosts dinner to winners of Lifetime Achievement National Literary Award and National Literary Awards...All prisoners express their ardent hope for granting of next general amnesty by President [Statement by the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission on its visits to the Insein Prison and Hlay- Hlaw-Inn Yebet Prison Labour Camp]...Relief aid flows to fire victims in Yangon...Second work committee for holding Myanmar Health Research Conference 2011 meets...Self-reliant power station Take Fire launched...Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in- Chief (Army) addresses 9th Intake Passing-out Parade of Military Institute of Nursing and Paramedical Sciences...Union Level Peace-making Group, Special Region (4) sign agreement...Storm ?THANE? likely to cross Tamilnadu Coast (Southern India)..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Talks on ?Leadership in the era of Globalization? on 31 Dec..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Towards e-Government"