Wed. 07 Oct 2009 1110 UTC
Obama to Discuss Afghanistan With Advisors
US President will meet senior military, political advisors for another strategy session on 8th anniversary of military mission
Pakistani Parliament Debates $7.5 Billion US Aid Bill
Some in Pakistan concerned that money comes with conditions that could violate country's sovereignty
Washington Post: UN Data Shows Vote Discrepancies in Afghan Election
Newspaper says spreadsheet kept secretly by UN chief envoy in Afghanistan showed widespread discrepancies between estimated turnout, IEC vote results
Obama, Talabani Meet at White House
US president praises Iraqi counterpart for promoting national unity, expresses support for efforts to adopt new election law
Obama: US Making 'Real Progress' in Terror Fight 
President says members of intelligence community deserve nation's thanks
 |  | The Czech PM, Jan Fischer, tells EU leaders he fully expects his country to ratify the Lisbon Treaty by the end of this year. |
| Somali pirates attack a French navy ship by mistake, believing it to be a harmless cargo vessel, France's military says. | | A colossal dust ring is seen encircling Saturn, way beyond the ones astronomers have long known about. |
Chicken in the Basket |
| By AUNG ZAW |
| Despite some censorship relaxations, it’s still too early to hope for the return of a free press to Burma. |
Thailand: We Won’t Send Back Refugees |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| A leading Thai security official predicts 200,000 refugees from Burma would flood into Thailand if fighting breaks out again, but says Thailand will not repatriate them. |
Armed Faction Splits from Mon Party |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Fifty soldiers break away from the New Mon State Party over a disagreement about the party’s role in the 2010 Burmese election. |
Suu Kyi Meets Junta Liaison Again |
| By KO HTWE |
| The detained pro-democracy leader meets Aung Kyi, the Burmese Minister for Relations, for the second time in a week. |
Burma, Bangladesh Reinforce Border Troops |
| By LAWI WENG |
| Tension between Bangladesh and Burma escalates after Burmese border authorities resume construction of a wire fence. |
INTERVIEWAn Historian Looks at Rohingya |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| The word Rohingya derives from the Arakan word lwintja, which means falling leaves blowing around without a purpose, says Dr Aye Kyaw. |
US embassy official meets detained citizen, lawyers appointed
The consul officer of the United States embassy met detained citizen Kyaw Zaw Lwin in Rangoon’s Insein prison on Sunday, and appointed two lawyers to take up...Takkatho Tun Naung dies
Takkatho Tun Naung, a pioneer of Burmese modern music, died of a heart attack in Thu Kha Kabar, a special clinic in Rangoon, at about 8 p.m. on October 6....Editorial, Opinion and Analysis
Ostensible verdict against Aung San Suu Kyi
(Commentary) If a ruling of a court is called a verdict, it has to be called a legal judgment and the judgment has to be made by a judge. So far it seems ostens...
က်ေနာ္ကေတာ့ ဒီ၀န္ႀကီးနဲ႔ ေတြ႔တယ္ဆိုတဲ့ အစီအစဥ္ကိုက၊ အရင္ကတည္းက နအဖဟာ ကမာၻ႔အာေဘာ္ပိုင္းကို လိမ္ညာဖို႔ အတြက္ ထြင္ထားတဲ့ဟာလို႔ ယူဆပါတယ္။ ေဒၚစုကို မေဗဒါ ေရျဖည့္သလို ျဖည့္ခိုင္းထားတာ။ ဘာမွျဖစ္လာမွာ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ သက္သက္ အခ်ိန္ဆြဲခိုင္းထားတာ
