DOMESTIC NEWS: Yandana Hninsi Housing complex opens...Aid flows to villages in northern Rakhine...Government troops clash with KIA/TNLA/MNDAA forces...Weapons, ammunition seized...Five civilians injured in random KIA heavy weapon fire...IDPs scrutinized and admitted in Mongko...Palaung residents flee amid fears of conscription, extortion by SSA (Wanhaing)...Union Minister for Information attends meeting for Myanma Democracy Week Film Festival...Civilian injured by a landmine planted by KIA...Commissioning ceremony of new naval vessels for marking the 69th anniversary Myanmar Navy Day held...Repair of sixty pagodas completed in Bagan...Myanmar chili growers and suppliers association to form in January..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Aid flows to villages in northern Rakhine...Japan provides ODA loan up to JPY 31,051 million for Bago River Bridge Construction Project...U Kyaw Tin attends 2nd Mekong-Lancang Foreign Ministers? Meeting...Daw Su Su Lwin, President?s wife, presented CELD?s Global Inspirational Leadership Award 2016...Action taken against another landlord who illegally rented house to six Chinese..... POEM: "X?mas done" - Yin Nwe Ko (Linn) 23-12-2016..... "OPINION": "It is incumbent upon us to safeguard our independence" - Editorial from the Mirror Daily (Kyemon) Dated 23rd December 2016.....ARTICLE: "Sexual offences In Myanmar, Singapore and India" - U Mya Thein. B. A., B.L. (Continued from 24-12-2016)