DOMESTIC NEWS: Academic years of science and arts subjects will be added one more year in the coming year - Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham on tour of Shan State (North)...Meeting (1/2011) of National Level Population and Development Commission held...Yatanarpon Teleport Call Center launched...MWAF donates cash and kind to Mental Health Hospital...Mass walk activity celebrated in Zeyathiri Township...Yangon Region Chief Minister attends South-East Asia Men?s Horkey Tournament at Theinbyu Horkey Turf...Dinner hosted to hockey teams...National Badminton Championship kicks off...Rakhine traditional wrestling held...Thayawady District emerges champion in Bago Region Football Tourney...World AIDS Day marked...Model plot of paddy harvested...K 6 million loans disbursed to vendors...Plywood and glue factories opened in Singaing Tsp...Stake driven for construction of two-storey school building in Thayawady...Establishment of special economic zones imperative to shape industrialized nation Thilawa Special Economic Zone project commences...Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Lt-Gen Soe Win attends graduation dinner of 14th Intake of DSTA...Myanmar Sarsodaw Day, respect paying ceremony to doyen literati observed...Date for prize presentation of National Literary Awards to be announced..... FOREIGN RELATIONS: Heads of State/Government, senior officials to GMS Summit arrive in Nay Pyi Taw on 18, 19 Dec..... "PERSPECTIVES":"Make a change through self-control".....ARTICLE: "Ayeyawady Bridge, 8th facility in time of government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar" Article: Kayan Soe Myint; Photos: Kyaw Moe Lwin