 |  | The first results in Afghanistan's presidential poll are announced, giving Hamid Karzai a slight lead over one of his main rivals. |
| US President Barack Obama is to announce he is reappointing Ben Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the US central bank. | | Caster Semenya's testosterone level is three times higher than in an average female sample, BBC Sport understands. |
Initial Afghan Election Results Show Incumbent President with Slight Lead
Independent Election Commission says President Hamid Karzai has 40.6 percent while top challenger Abdullah Abdullah has 38.7 percent; tallies released cover only 10 percent of total
South Korea Fails to Put Satellite In Orbit
Launch of the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1, which was developed with help from Russia, had been delayed several times
Reports: North Korea Invites US Envoy for Nuclear Talks
If reports in South Korean media are accurate, trip by Stephen Bosworth would mark first official nuclear negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang under Obama administration
Israeli Forces Kill at Least 2 Palestinians in Raid on Gaza Tunnel
Earlier, Palestinian medics said Israeli troops killed one Palestinian and wounded another near the Israel-Gaza border
US Establishes New Interrogation Unit, Names Head of Prisoner Abuse Probe 
White House says it will directly supervise a new unit that is being set up to interrogate high value terror detainees
Monk Leaders Call for Third Sangha Boycott |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| Several Buddhist monk leaders in exile say that monks across Burma are preparing for another boycott, or pattanikkujjana, of the country’s military authorities and their families. |
KNU Struggles to Acquire Arms |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| They’ve got the money, but nobody wants to sell weapons to the Karen National Union these days. |
Tension Mounts between Junta and Kokang Ceasefire Group |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| Government troops move into area controlled by the ethnic Kokang army, as tension builds and residents flee to China. |
Burmese IT Contest to Aid Junta? |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| Analysts suspect a computer contest to develop a Burmese language search engine is a junta initiative to increase its cyberspace capabilities. |
Thai PM Fears Chaos at Weekend Rally |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva invokes special security powers ahead of a major anti-government rally this weekend that he warns could turn chaotic and plunge the country back into turmoil. |
Bangladesh Awards Gas Exploration Rights |
| By JULHAS ALAM |
| Bangladesh has awarded three offshore blocks to two global energy companies to explore for gas in the Bay of Bengal. |
Suu Kyi Asks for Return of Family Doctor |
| By WAI MOE |
| Burma's detained democracy leader wants her family physician reinstated as her primary doctor. |
MAI to fly to Bodh GayaThe ‘Myanmar International Airway’ (MAI) will launch a Rangoon-Bodh Gaya (India) flight from October 25. The ticket reservation centre of the Burmese National Flag carrier said... |
Without constitution amendment elections cannot herald change: NLDUnless Burma’s military regime releases political prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi, and amends the 2008 constitution, the 2010 general elections will be meaningless and will not... |
Editorial, Opinion and Analysis
Burma's fishery export downward trend continue
(Analysis) Despite Burma’s fishery products being a good revenue earner in the export market, this year it has taken a beating and failed to achieve the targe...
Thai citizenship to grant stateless near Burma border
Citizenship will be granted by Thailand to displaced Thai villagers, who were in Burma, during demarcation by the British a hundred years ago. Surapong Kongchantuek of the Committee to......Fire breaks out at Grand Royal Distillery again
For the second time, a fire broke out at about noon on Monday at the famous liquor and wine producers, the Grand Royal Distillery in Hlegu Township of Rangoon Division....Cementing Japanese-Burmese relationship
The Burmese Agriculture and Irrigation Minister Maj-Gen Htay Oo’s visit to Japan is yet another sign of the cosy relationship that Japan maintains with Burmese military generals,...Activists protest Htay Oo's secret visit to Japan
Burmese activists on Monday held a protest rally against the secret visit to Japan by Htay Oo, Secretary of the pro-junta civilian organization – the Union Solidarity and Development......Transcript of interview with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was interviewed by Fareed Zakaria on "Fareed Zakaria GPS" this weekend
Below is the complete transcript of Fareed Zakaria's interview with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. The interview was taped September 23, and portions were shown on "Fareed Zakaria GPS" on September 28.Zakaria: We are now beginning the formal interview, just so everyone realizes.
Wen Jiabao: Before we begin, I would like to let you know that I will use the words from the bottom of my heart to answer your questions, which means that I will tell the truth to all your questions.
I always tell people that sometimes I may not tell what is on my mind, that as long as I speak out what is on my mind, the words are true. Read More
စံမမီတဲ့ ၾကက္သြန္အေဟာင္း ဥအေသးေတြ၊ တပိႆာကို ဘတ္ (၄၀) ရိွတယ္.....
မိမိတို႔သာသနာကို မိမိတို႔အသက္ေပးကာကြယ္မွ ရပါမယ္။ မိမိတို႔ကေနၿပီးေတာ့ ငါတို႔သာသနာကို ဖ်က္ဆီးေနတာပဲဆိုၿပီးေတာ့ အိမ္ထဲထိုင္ၿပီး လက္သီးဆုပ္ေနလို႔မရပါဘူး။ မိမိတို႔ရဲ႕သာသနာကို ဘယ္လိုကာကြယ္မွာလဲ။ အဲေတာ့ လူထုအားဆိုတာ တကယ္ညီၫြတ္လို႔ရိွရင္.... 
