DOMESTIC NEWS: Parade columns participate in rehearsal for flag hoisting of Independence Day, Grand Military Review ceremony...Amendment of mining law to allow machinery with limitation in small-scale mining sector...Myanaung to get new school building at BEMS branch in rural area...Trainees in practical works of driving tractors...University students, faculty members donate blood at Dawei General Hospital...Myanmar martial arts training school improves skills of trainers...District and township election sub-commissions meet in Yinmabin...Press conference highlights community-based policing works...Challenges to environment and ecosystems discussed...Inntha peacefully stage protests, including five demands in Nyaungshwe Tsp...Fire destroys guest house in Inlay...Armed ethnic groups, KIA/KIO, TNLA leaders invited to attend Independence Day ceremony in Nay Pyi Taw...Thousands of students sent abroad in gov?t scholarship programme in 2014...Department of Rural Development makes straight inter-village road...Locals join December sports activities...Mobile team gives healthcare to TB suspects in Pyinmana...Traffic accident damages water pump in Mandalay...Conveyance of large marble stone to be carved as Buddha image launched...UNICEF applauds Myanmar?s first-ever social protection strategy..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar to host ASEAN Tourism Forum 2015 on 22-29 January...UNICEF applauds Myanmar?s first-ever social protection strategy..... "PERSPECTIVES": "2015 gives another chance for general public" by Mying Win Thein..... ARTICLE: "Avarice, Intimidation and Fraudulence" by Tommy Pauk