DOMESTIC NEWS: Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Amyotha Hluttaw U Khin Aung Myint presents stipends for students...Significant night temperatures (7-1-2013)...Guard bronze statues of Maha Muni Buddha Image call for adequate protection...Twayt Mashaung knocks out Po Kay in first-round...Value-added wood products seized in Mingaladon...Flood prevention measures for farmlands in Yedashe Township...Fuel station fire in Shwegyin...Brake failure causes tenwheeled truck upside down...Aungmingala Bridge commissioned into service in Hkamti...Ministry of Health 41st Myanmar Medical Research Conference From 7 to 11 January, 2013...Book show, poem and tale recitation held...Shwedaungtan No. 2 jetty under repair...IWT to set up JV for Mya Ayeya market ship...Association of Disabled organizes first anniversary in Myitkyina...Shan nationals meet in Mohnyin Township...Special Appellate Bench hears cases, writs...41st Myanmar Medical Research Congress kicks off...Yangon City Public Transport Authority formed...Democratic transition calls for participation of the people: Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker...Yangon Region MCWSC organizes baby show...Tailai (Red Shan) Nationals Development Party issues statement...Phoekawzan Library commissioned into service in Salin Tsp..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Foreign Heads of State send felicitations to President U Thein Sein...Former Brazilian soccer giants to meet with Myanmar veterans...UNESCO putting finishing touches to Pyu cities national dossier...Japan to help Myanmar develop Thilawa SEZ..... "PERSPECTIVES": "True public servants"..... ARTICLES: "Hotels and Tourism Ministry planning new hotel zone in Yangon" Byline: Arkar Hein; Photo: Kay Zin Lin..."Come, visit NLM!" Tin Maung Than..."Japan to help Myanmar develop Thilawa SEZ" Byline: Arkar Hein; Photo: Kay Zin Lin