DOMESTIC NEWS: Significant night temperatures (4-12-2012)...Public service book corner arrives in Muse...Sandpainting artists doing a brisk trade in Bagan...Yamethin Township sees cotton output growth...Shan new year festival 13 December...Photo show on Buddhology on 15 Dec...Development of school libraries, raising reading habit geared up...Training courses conclude at vocational school...Essay, extempore talks contests to depict speeches of Bhaddanta A?aralankara...Hot-air balloon releasing contest concludes in Taunggyi...Drug possessors arrested in Pinlebu...Mass walk for December launched in Mandalay...Stake-driving ceremony of Laboratory for communicable disease held...Literary contest held in Pyapon...Summary of observation at 9.30 hr MST on 4-12-2012...Bay Inference...Investigation Commission holds coordination meeting...Flight Attendant Course No (1/2012) of MAI concludes..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein sends message of felicitations to King of Thailand...President U Thein Sein to pay State Visits to Australia, New Zealand...President U Thein Sein receives 21-gun salute in Brunei...Aids for quake victims transported...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker receives RFA president and party...Union Foreign Minister felicitates Deputy Prime Minister, FM of Thailand...Ambassador Daw Yin Yin Myint presents her Credentials to King of Brunei...Ambassador U Min Lwin concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Timor-Leste...Ambassador U Soe Nwe concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Czech (sic)...Ambassador U Soe Nwe concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Finland...R&D of Myanmar?s Inland and Coastal Fisheries project signed...Discussions with experts are being made to seek ways for rapid development...Union Religious Affairs Minister meets Chinese guests...Brunei King grants audience to President U Thein Sein...Pyithu Hluttaw Deputy Speaker holds talks with OCLC Vice-President...First Muay course opened in Nay Pyi Taw...Sumitomo Corp from Japan eyes to make investment in Myanmar...Union Attorney-General meets IDLO Southeast Asia Regional Representative...34th ASEAN Railway CEOs meets held...Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham discusses closer cooperation with UN...President U Thein Sein felicitates Prime Minister of Thailand...Vice-President U Nyan Tun receives Japanese guests..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Should Myanmar rely on nuclear energy?"