Blast Near Pakistan's Swat Valley Kills 41, Wounds 45
Deadly incident came hours after Pakistan officials said military fighter jets bombed militant outposts in a lawless northwestern tribal belt
Clinton: 'New Relationship' with Karzai is Needed
Secretary of state tells BBC Hamid Karzai has been 'very helpful on many fronts' but US expects more from him
Indonesian Tsunami Survivors Arrive to Help Earthquake Victims 
Victims of the recent earthquake that hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra are getting help from their neighbors to the north, survivors of the 2004 tsunami
Armenian President to Watch Football Match in Turkey
Serzh Sarksyan said Monday he had accepted an invitation by his Turkish counterpart to watch Turkey play Armenia in the second leg of their World Cup qualifier
US 'Confident' in Pakistan's Government, Nuclear Security
Secretary of State Clinton's comment follows Pakistan army raid to free hostages held by militants
 |  | At least 41 people are killed in a bombing in north-west Pakistan, in the latest in a string of attacks by militants. |
| Six people are sentenced to death in China over the riots in Xinjiang in July, Chinese state media report. | | American Elinor Ostrom becomes the first woman to win the Nobel prize for economics since it began in 1968. |
| QUOTE OF THE DAY | |
 |  This [Nobel Peace] award—and the call to action that comes with it—does not belong simply to me or my administration; it belongs to all people around the world who have fought for justice and for peace.  — President Barack Obama |
Separating the ‘Head’ and the ‘Body’ |
| By KO HTWE |
| Seven hours and 25 minutes. That’s how long the Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD executive committee have met together in the past six years. |
Editorial: Halfway to a Handshake |
| Aung San Suu Kyi has reached out to the Burmese junta to help end sanctions. Will the generals do the same? |
Coming to the Bargaining Table |
| By HTET AUNG |
| The main issues now are how far is the Burmese junta willing to go in order to have economic sanctions lifted, and how quickly? |
Burma, Bangladesh in Warship Standoff |
| By LAWI WENG |
| Bangladesh’s foreign minister dismisses the naval movements as routine, but analysts say both countries are gearing for war in the Bay of Bengal. |
India’s Army Chief visits Burma |
| By WAI MOE |
| India’s military chief seeks greater military-to-military cooperation with the Burmese junta during a three-day visit. |
Thai Security Detains 60 at Islamic school |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Security forces raided an Islamic school in insurgency-plagued southern Thailand, detaining 60 students and religious teachers for questioning. |
Timor Govt Faces No Confidence Vote |
| By GUIDO GOULART |
| East Timor's government faced a no-confidence vote over the release at Indonesia's request of an alleged militia leader accused of war crimes in the slayings of women, children and priests in a church a decade ago. |
Bangladeshi foreign minister to meet Burmese counterpart
Bangladesh will hold talks with Burma on the long-standing maritime boundary dispute of its territorial waters in Colombo on Thursday, which has threatened its rights...If not dialogue, it must be a plan of assault
(Editorial) The meeting between Aung San Suu Kyi and junta’s Liaison Minister Aung Kyi throw up hopes of a dialogue between the junta and the opposition for political...Editorial, Opinion and Analysis
If not dialogue, it must be a plan of assault
(Editorial) The meeting between Aung San Suu Kyi and junta’s Liaison Minister Aung Kyi throw up hopes of a dialogue between the junta and the opposition for p...
(၁၇) ရာစုမွာ တ႐ုတ္ ‘မင္’ မင္းဆက္ကုိ မန္းခ်ဴးခ်င္က ျဖဳတ္ခ်တဲ့အခါ ေနာက္ဆုံး ‘မင္’ မင္းဆက္ျဖစ္သူ ‘ယုံလီ’ မင္း ျမန္မာျပည္ထဲ ၀င္ေရာက္ခုိလႈံတယ္။ အဲဒီအခါမွာ ‘မင္’ မင္းဆက္ကုိ လုိလားတဲ့ ျမန္မာျပည္ေရာက္တ႐ုတ္ေတြ စခန္းထၾကတဲ့အတြက္ တုိင္းေရးျပည္ရာ အလြန္႐ႈပ္ေထြးလာတယ္တဲ့။ ေနာက္ဆုံး တ႐ုတ္စစ္တပ္ႀကီး အင္း၀ၿမိဳ႕အထိ ခ်ီတက္လာလုိ႔ ‘ယုံလီ’ မင္းကုိ အပ္ႏွင္းလုိက္ရတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ တ႐ုတ္တပ္ႀကီးအျပန္မွာ လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္ရသြားတဲ့ ယုံလီမင္းရဲ႕ ကုိယ္ရံေတာ္တပ္ဖြဲ႔ဟာ ကုိးကန္႔ေဒသမွာ အေျခစုိက္ေနထုိင္တဲ့အတြက္ ကုိးကန္႔တ႐ုတ္ေပၚေပါက္လာတာလုိ႔ အဆုိရွိတယ္။ (၁၇) ရာစုေႏွာင္းပုိင္းကစၿပီး ကုိးကန္႔တ႐ုတ္ရယ္လုိ႔ ေပၚထြက္လာတာျဖစ္လုိ႔ ျပည္နယ္ေလးလုိျဖစ္ေနတာ ၾကာလွပါၿပီ။ ကုိးကန္႔တ႐ုတ္ကုိ ေတာင္ေပၚတ႐ုတ္လုိ႔ ယူနန္မွာ လူသိမ်ားတယ္လုိ႔ ‘တာကာႏုိ’ က ဆုိပါတယ္။ ပထမဆုံး ၀တုိင္းရင္းသားနဲ႔ လက္ရည္တျပင္တည္း ေနထုိင္စားေသာက္တဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံျခားသားဟာ ဂ်ပန္အမ်ဳိးသား ဟီဒဲယုကိ-တာကာႏုိ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
“ဦးဇင္းတုိ႔ ျမန္မာစာသင္သား ရဟန္းေတာ္ေတြအေနနဲ႔ ဘန္ေကာက္မွာ.....”
