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Aung San Suu Kyi and liaison officer Aung Kyi [Photo: AFP]

26—Khun Sa, the drug warlord-cum-freedom fighter and once one of the world’s most wanted men, dies in Rangoon at the age of 74.

30—Burma’s military government agrees to the appointment of Kim Sok Chol, 52, as Pyongyang’s ambassador.

31—More than 100 monks in Pakokku Township in Burma’s Magwe Division march, chanting the “Metta Sutta,” in the first public demonstration since the government’s deadly crackdown in September.

• NOVEMBER

02—The Burmese military regime announces its intention to expel UN resident coordinator Charles Petrie due to his criticism of the junta.

08—UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari holds talks with three representatives of the NLD—Chairman Aung Shwe, Secretary U Lwin and Nyunt Wai—for 45 minutes in Naypyidaw, attempting to reconcile the ruling military and the pro-democracy party.

Lt-Gen Thein Sein, Burma’s new prime minister, starts a three-nation tour of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia to acquaint himself with regional leaders.

09—Detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi welcomes the possibility of dialogue and urges constructive engagement on all sides, in a statement read by Gambari on her behalf in Singapore.

Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein, fourth from the right, joins leaders at the 13th Asean Summit in Singapore in November [Photo: AFP]

Aung San Suu Kyi meets with NLD leaders—Chairman Aung Shwe, Secretary U Lwin, Nyunt Wai and spokesman Nyan Win—for two and a half hours at a government guest house in Rangoon. It is first time she has been allowed to meet with any of her colleagues in three years.

13—UN special rapporteur on human rights in Burma, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, visits detainees at Insein Prison in Rangoon.

18—Arriving at the annual Asean summit in Singapore, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao calls for national reconciliation in Burma and backs the initiatives of the UN envoys.

19— Burma’s state-run newspaper, The New Light of Myanmar, reports that there is “no reason to hold further discussions with any person or any organization except at the National Convention.”

Burma’s Foreign Minister Nyan Win pledges to sign the Asean charter, which includes a regional human rights body.

Asean leaders urge Burma’s junta to open meaningful dialogue with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, release her from house arrest, free all political detainees and work toward a “peaceful transition to democracy.”