DOMESTIC NEWS: Vice-President U Myint Swe addresses 17th Anniversary of Myanmar Traditional Medicine Practitioners? Conference...National-Level Political Dialogue for Ethnic Groups (Kayin) begins...Villager shot dead in Hpakant Township...Arrangements for holding regular meetings of 2nd Hluttaw discussed...Vice-President U Henry Van Thio inspects agricultural farms in Mandalay...President visits National Reconciliation and Peace Centre...Workshop concerning natural resources held in Yangon...Number of circular trains to increase...Customs check point reopened in Hsenwi...ICE and stimulants seized...About 11,442 houses will be solar powered in August...Sembcorp Myingyan project powers inks build-operate-transfer agreement with Ministry of Electric Power & Energy...Vegetable wholesale market to be built...Ammunition seized near Mongko...Police arrest YBS bus conductors...Nawnghkio bypass road to be constructed across Gothteik Creek.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: UN rights envoy, Maungtaw Commission discuss alleged abuse in northern Rakhine...State Counsellor, UN human rights envoy hold talks...Chairman of Union Civil Service Board receives World Bank?s Senior Official...Union Minister for Information receives Japan Parliamentary Vice Minister...UN rights envoy meets with union ministers separately...Foreign countries propose to become agricultural partners...Nissan & Tan Chong begin vehicle assembly in Myanmar...Trading from Amara Investment Securities to start on 20th Jan at YSX...Foreign Heads of State send felicitations to President U Htin Kyaw...Exchange of notes on ODA loans signed between Japan and Myanmar..... "OPINION": "System of paying bus fare by I-Pay Card and our moral bankruptcy" - Khin Maung Oo..... ARTICLE: "The noblest Religious Titles presented by the President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the eminent Buddhist monks, nuns and laypersons at home and abroad for their utmost efforts for carrying out the purification, perpetuation, propagation and promotion of the Buddha Sasana (the Teachings of the Omniscient Buddha) throughout the world" - Ba Sein