DOMESTIC NEWS: State Counsellor attends New Year luncheon...Licenses issued for more than 280 trawlers, 161 boats in Maungtaw Tsp to overcome fishing challenges...Senior General visits head of Shwekyin Religious Order at hospital...14th Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida emerges...Assailant suspected of attack on Kyikanpin violence arrested...Missing village administrator in Maungtaw found dead of knife wounds...Children in garden of literature as happy as butterflies in colourful garden...Children enthusiastic about colouring and proverb contests at Children Literature Festival in Mandalay...Second day of Children Literature Festival crowded in Mandalay...Garden of medicinal plants to be built in Nawnghkio...Women?s Support Centre to launch in Mandalay in February...Myanmar railways to upgrade circular train tracks...2nd literary talks held in Dawbon Tsp...Yaba seized in Lashio..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Domestic gold prices continue to decline due to slumping global gold price...Myanmar-Chinese begin grand celebration of New Year in Yangon...Japanese chamber makes proposals to Daw Aung Suu Kyi to promote investment...Indian PM dubs main opposition party as ?sinking ship”..... "OPINION": "Children and Poems" - Dr. Nu Nu Win.....ARTICLE: "A powerful cure for leprosy: inclusiveness" - Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director for WHO South-East Asia