DOMESTIC NEWS: Respect the law...Emphasis on control of illegal trade...Farmland ownership and registration process clarified...MFF organizes annual meetings...Tyre blowout car accident on Yangon-Mandalay Highway...A collision between a vehicle, a motorbike on Razahtani Road...Five people hurt after Toyota Hilux Surf overturns on expressway...More than 150-year-old 99-door-and-window building in Magway...Fire drill in Yedashe...Three-month pregnant young woman who fell into well dies...Illegal teak, hardwood seized in Nawngkhio Township...Taungdwingyi Township to get new ward/ village administrators...Yangon-Pathein-Chaungtha bus line launched...Repaved road put into service in Katha...Stake driven for township hospital in Ywangan...Raw opium seized in Waingmaw...Ward/village administrators elected in Bago...Two jade stones weighing 800 viss seized...Apyauk villages illuminated on self-reliant basis...Village BEMS gets staff quarter in Pakokku Township...December mass walk activities organized...Union A&I Minister oversees land reclamation of 3000 acre mechanized farm of Ngalaik Irrigated Area in Dekkhinathiri Tsp...Deputy Energy Minister calls for higher productivity...Inter-township Mr & Ms Contests on 6 Jan...School scouting cultivates sense of duty: Union minister...Ministry of Cooperatives holds coordination meeting...18th graduation of State Pariyatti Sasana Universities (Yangon/Mandalay) held...Tender scrutiny ceremony for implementation of rural area development tasks for 2012-2013 fiscal year held...Basic Life Support Training for Ambulance Crews opened...Department of Meteorology and Hydrology Monthly Weather Forecast for January, 2013 Issued on 29-12-2012...Academy awarding ceremony live on TV..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Housing affordability"..... ARTICLES: "Ambitious goal to achieve" Thurein (Hpa-an)..."What independence tastes" Lu Nyein Thit..."Myanmar?s first-ever 500 KV power grid" Maung Maung Myint Swe.....POEM: "Decorating the motherland"