DOMESTIC NEWS: 1. Ensure perpetuation of sovereignty at the risk of lives; 2. Emphasis to be placed on producing medicines; 3. Senior General Than Shwe, wife Daw Kyaing; 4. Sagaing Division USDA approves of successful..; 5. Various kinds of medicines donated for people in border areas; 6. Industry-2 Minister inspects Hlaingthaya industrial Zone; 7. Sanitation and road construction tasks inspected; 8. Minister inspects Yayku transmitter; 9. PBANRDA Minister inspects development tasks in Rakhine State; 10. Respects paid to retired teachers at YTU; 11. Gold entrepreneurs association meet on 1 January; 12. Centenary of Sayagyi Yan Aung marked; 13. List of prize winners in essay, poetry competitions announced; 14. Traditional Medicines and Medical Equipment Exhibition concludes..."PERSPECTIVES": "Strive for improvement of science of and technology" (page 2)...FEATURE: "Causes behind the falling into mire of subjugation" (page 8)