DOMESTIC NEWS: 2nd Union Government Cup Golf Tournament for 2014 kicks off...2013 Dr Tin Shwe Literary Award Ceremony in February...No. 2 Pauk Bridge (Yepyar) under reconstruction...Umbrella hoisted atop pagoda in KhinU Tsp...Dhamma School conducts instructor course...Share of commercial tax handed over to Revenue Township DAC...Anti-human trafficking squads of Thailand, Malaysia visit Tachilek...Pyithu Hluttaw MPs? Shield football tournament held...Slight earthquake hits Myanmar...Rural electrification to benefit 20,000 villages in 2015...Slight earthquake jolts inside Myanmar...National Objectives of 67th Anniversary Union Day 2014...Community-based Child Protection Committee meets at Workshop...Basic fish breeding course opened...Fruit, vegetables production methods shared...100 million kyat funded to each township for basic infrastructures...1st Book Show of Reader?s Channel open...Government facilitates transport of east Bago dwellers with opening of Kyaukkyi Bridge...North Zamani elephant sanctuary emerges in Bago Yoma region.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein sends felicitations to India, Australia...Exporters urged to boost livestock, forestry, mining, value added products to India...Japan, Germany to assist in Myanmar?s insurance industry...Myanmar ready to host ATF-2015 in Jan...ICRC to open branch in Myitkyina...Chartered flight for Myanmar workers from Malaysia...Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham sends felicitation to Indian counterpart...Vice-President U Nyan Tun sends felicitation to Indian counterpart...Union FM sends felicitations to India, Australia....."PERSPECTIVES": "Free rider".....ARTICLE: "The noblest task for purification, perpetuation, propagation and promotion of the Buddha Sasana" by Ba Sein