KEY STORY: • Scores still detained despite year-end amnesty; • ?Released? prisoners and other activists continue to be arrested... INSIDE BURMA: • No ceasefire, more fighting in Kachin and Shan States; • Opium cultivation increases for seventh consecutive year... HUMAN RIGHTS: • Crackdown on peaceful protestors; • Weekly journal targeted, reporter jailed... DISPLACEMENT: • Thai officials implicated in trafficking of Rohingya; exodus continues... INTERNATIONAL: • US blacklists regime official and three Burmese firms; • Burma and Japan strengthen aid, investment ties... OTHER BURMA NEWS... REPORTS.