DOMESTIC NEWS: Utility Jade, Gems and Pearls Sales goes on...Inter-ministry track and field contest concludes...MNMA observes World AIDS Day...Purchasers make a loss on onion trade...Arid zones to see water stress in summer...Ancient public rest house over 100 years old...Harvest time makes great demands on combine harvester...Upgrading of Koebin-Thagara Yoma crossing road in progress...A girl knocked down by a passenger bus in Yekyi Township...Mawlamyine BEMS No 2 gets new building...Myitkyina Airport upgraded...New school building handed over...SEA Games torch conveyed rehearsed... Rubber trading cool in Ye...Euphoria Auto Service Centre opened...6th Nay Pyi Taw Inter- Ministry Basketball Tournament commences...10th Myanmar-China Joint Drug Control Meeting held...Traditional boxing challenge in Mandalay on 14-15 December...Kachin State Red Cross Society to take rehabilitation measures in Rakhine State...Ayeyawady Region Chief Minister oversees regional development in Labutta, Pyinsalu...Course on Training of Trainers for Civil Service No 1/2012 opened...Mobile healthcare reaches out to 6665 in Rakhine State...Tonsi Bridge crossing Namee Creek in Katha nearing completion..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Workshop on technological cooperation in development of road/bridge construction held...VISA introduces mobile payment...Union Ministers, Chinese delegation visit groundnut research farm, quality control laboratory, hybrid seed production research farm...Course in Diplomacy (1/2012) concludes...Myanmar Ambassador to Belgium presents his credentials to Belgian King Albert II...Border Affairs Ministry, Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities Committee meet...Myanmar cruise into final stage of AFF U-19 Women?s Championship...Union S&T Minister participates in 7th Informal ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Science and Technology...Myanmar, Brazil eye multifaceted cooperation...Reinsurance Protection & IT System workshop held...Business Meeting and Matching on 17 Dec...Japanese contributor opens renovated school..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Boost Myanmar tourism through information technology".....ARTICLE: "Bounden duty of Myanmar people" [to preserve the independence, bringing about the eternal peace and prosperity of the Union] Maung Nwe Sit