DOMESTIC NEWS: Industrialization is a must to improve economic performance of the nation...Basic framework for economic and social reforms approved at the third meeting of Planning Commission on 26-12-2012...Pakokku elects first woman ward administrator...Tamu on the fast track to development...Unidentified man found dead in Thakayta Township...Fire breaks out in Paungde Township...Power supply resumes after eight-hour blackout in Heho...Kyondo of Kayin State celebrates annual bonfire festival...YCDC dredges drains, creeks in Dagon Myothit (East) Township...Rural clinic built in Indaw Township...Bago facilitated with traffic light...How to write clearly and correctly Myanmar...Triplet born in Yekyi Township...Reading skill contest held in Mayangon...YCDC raises collection of sanitation tax...Eye surgical machine donated to Haka Hospital ...Myanmar Gazette...Dinner hosted to delegates to 13th Myanmar Traditional Medicine Practitioners? Conference...Subject-wise research paper reading session held...Myanmar?s alternative medicines, handed down by our ancestors, had and still have an influential role in Myanmar?s healthcare...World has seen life-threatening diseases because of changing lifestyle and eating habits one after another on a daily basis nowadays while some diseases have begun resistant to modern medicines..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Mandalarian literati in Yunnan...Best traditional cane-ballers wanted for SEA Games...Appointment of Ambassador agreed on...PETRONAS grants scholarships to outstanding Myanmar students...Japan to help Myanmar install second radar system..... "PERSPECTIVES": "3Rs plus 3Cs".....ARTICLE: "Trust in reform" Min Bahtoo (Continued from 21 December)