DOMESTIC NEWS: Tatmadaw troops take over KIA battalion headquarters...Yangon Region Government meets volunteers for new public transportation system...ITBMU holds 18th anniversary of ceremony for paying homage to teachers...Police discovers male body in Maungtaw...armed group explodes a Hoax sound mine in Kutkai...timulants seized in city Development Guesthouse in Nay Pyi Taw...Fire destroys two houses in Maungtaw...Drug cases double in Bago region...a handmade mine found on Muse-Lashio union road...Gold prices rise by over Ks 20,000 pertical during first 2 weeks of January...Mandalay real estate market expected to be active after Chinese New Year...Paddy price declines despite increasing rice price in Mawlamyinegyun.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Gov?t pledges to relax laws, to fight illegal trade, to revive tourism, to build estates...Ms Yanghee Lee visits sittway, Rakhine state...Opening honourary consulate in Yangon shows our commitment to strengthening our relations with Myanmar: Ukrainian FM Mr Pavlo Klimkin...Myanmar-Czech Foreign Office Consultations held...State Counsellor receives Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic...State Counsellor receives donation from Thailand for humanitarian efforts in Rakhine State...Advisory body of PC holds talks with DPN delegation in Chiang Mai...Over one million tonne of pulses exported in past nine months...Border trade value rises by over $55 million..... "OPINION": "Love and Happiness Come First and then other Things Follow" - Dr.Nu Nu Win.....ARTICLE: "Pragmatic approach to establish ?Home for the Aged” on self-help basis" - Daw Myint Myint Kyi