NATO Helicopter Crashes in Afghanistan Kill 14 Americans
It's one of the deadliest days for US forces since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan
Asylum Debate Stirs Political Debate in Australia 
More than 42 vessels have reached Australian waters over the past year, most carrying Afghans, Sri Lankans and Iraqis
Dual Baghdad Bombings Kill 155, Wound 500
Near-simultaneous attacks hit near the heavily-guarded Green zone and appeared to target a provincial government building and the Ministry of Justice
Iranian FM: Tehran to Respond to Nuclear Deal Within Days
Manouchehr Mottaki Monday reportedly said Tehran may agree to ship some of its own uranium abroad for enriching, or it may choose to buy enriched uranium
First Day of Karadzic Trial Ends
Serb leader Radovan Karadzic fails to appear before court for opening of his trial on 11 counts of crimes against humanity, genocide
 |  | Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic fails to appear for the opening of his trial on genocide and war crimes charges. |
| At least 14 Americans are killed and more injured in a series of helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, military officials say. | | The trial of a man accused of murdering a pregnant Egyptian woman inside a German courtroom opens in Dresden. |
Drowning in Debt |
| By SOE LWIN |
| With insufficient work in the cyclone-devastated fishing and agricultural sectors, day laborers in the Irrawaddy delta are falling into the debt trap. |
The World is not Flat |
| By AUNG ZAW |
| Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s preposterous comparison of former Thai Premier Thaksin and Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi illustrates the quality of leadership within Asean. |
Thaksin's Asean Comedy Act
Will the Junta and Wa Compromise? |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| The Burmese junta may have reached a conditional agreement with the UWSA over the border guard issue. |
Bombs Damage TV Station, Gambling Businesses in Kokang |
| By LAWI WENG |
| At least 10 bombs damage businesses in Laogai that are controlled by the Kokang militia put into power by the Burmese military government. |
Rice Tariffs Snarl Asean Single Market |
| By MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR |
| Rice, the staple dish across Southeast Asia, has emerged as an apt symbol of the region’s commitment—or lack of it—to unveiling a free trade area for its 10 members when the New Year dawns. |
Hazardous Waste Contaminates Rivers near Rangoon |
| By KYI WAI |
| Dangerous chemicals and contaminated waste water pour into the rivers around Rangoon, posing a health hazard to humans and wildlife. |
Stop Burma-China Oil and Gas Pipelines Projects!
Gad | US citizen begins trial in Burma Oct 26, 2009 (DVB)–The Burmese-born US citizen currently detained in a Rangoon prison has appeared in court on charges of fraud after allegedly using false identification to enter the country. - more |
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| Burma could ‘relax’ Suu Kyi’s detention Oct 26, 2009 (DVB)–Burma’s military leaders could ease the conditions of Aung San Suu Kyi’s detention if she upholds “a good attitude”, the Burmese prime minister was quoted as saying. - more |
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| Suu Kyi marks 14 years in detention Oct 26, 2009 (DVB)–A senior Burmese opposition politician lamented an “unspeakable loss” for the people of Burma as opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday marked 14 years in detention. - more |
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| Ten explosions hit Kokang capital Oct 26, 2009 (DVB)–More than 10 simultaneous blasts hit Burma’s northeastern Shan state last week, the site of heavy fighting earlier this year between government troops and an ethnic army. - more |
ျမန္မာျပည္ စာနယ္ဇင္း ေလာကမွာ က်င္လည္ခဲ့စဥ္က က်မ စာေရးဆရာ နီကိုရဲနဲ႔ အင္တာဗ်ဴး ၂ ခါ လုပ္ခဲ့ဖူးပါတယ္။ ပထမအႀကိမ္ လုပ္စဥ္က မဂၢဇင္းတအုပ္ထဲမွာ ေဖာ္ျပခံခဲ့ရေပမယ့္ ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ အင္တာဗ်ဴးကေတာ့ 
“ဒီလိုလူကေတာ့ ရွာမွရွားဗ်။ ဒီဘက္ေခတ္မွာ ေအာင္ျမင္တဲ့ စာေရးဆရာေတြ...”
အာဆီယံရဲ႕ အစိုးရေတြက ကိုယ့္ျပည္သူေတြကို အတူတူလက္တြဲၿပီး လုပ္ေဖာ္ကိုင္ဖက္ အျဖစ္မျမင္ဘဲ သူတုိ႔အာဏာကို ထိပါးတဲ့ရန္သူလို ျမင္တာကိုး။ အခု က်မကို လက္မခံတာ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေရးအရေရာ၊ လႈပ္ရွားမႈအရေရာ ဘာမွမျဖစ္ပါဘူး။ အာဏာရွင္ရဲ႕တုံ႔ျပန္မႈက ဒါျဖစ္တယ္ဆိုတာ လူတုိင္းက.... 
