DOMESTIC NEWS: New school building handed over in Hinthada Tsp...Vice-President Thiha Thura U Tin Aung Myint Oo and wife attend ceremony to present offertories to members of the Sangha in Leshi Township...Union level peace-making group, RCSS/SSA peace-making group sign 11 initial agreement...Zaykabar Myanmar Open Golf Tournament 2012 on 2-5 Feb...Special Refresher Course No 45 for basic education teachers opened...Taungdwingyi boosts production of pigeon...MRCS provides relief aids...Fire drill exercised at Padetha Market in Hinthada...Vice-President Thiha Thura U Tin Aung Myint Oo meets departmental personnel, Naga national chieftains of Leshi Tsp...Vice-President Thiha Thura U Tin Aung Myint Oo meets officials, social organizations, townselders, locals from Homalin, Mopainglut of Sagaing Region..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein receives US Senator Mr Addison Mitchell McConnell and party...President U Thein Sein receives senior editor of The Washington Post and party...US Senator, Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker vow to cooperate between two parliaments...FM meets United States Senator...Foreign Heads of State send felicitations to President U Thein Sein...Myanmar, France to further strengthen cooperation in cultural sector...Government to provide Euro 400,000 for preservation of Myanmar cultural heritage - Project for preservation of the cultural heritage is the first of its kind to be launched with the assistance of UNESCO in a decade..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Compete in both self-interest and public interest".....ARTICLE: "Experts meet to prepare key biodiversity areas conservation" (From our correspondent Aye Min Soe)....BREAKDOWN OF COVERAGE: Myanmar-related nws: 8pp; Foreign news: 4pp); Foreign sport: 1p; Foreign business news: 1p; Science & technology: 1p; Health: 0,5p; Foreign celebraties; 0.5p