"MYANMAR TIMES? NEWS ARTICLES, 17-24 SEPTEMBER 2012 Peace marchers face charges ?The Voice? defendants plead not guilty to defamation US fetes Daw Aung San Suu Kyi; Almost 100 prisoners of conscience freed: activists; HRW calls for prisoner monitoring mechanism Rakhine investigation team discusses first visit; ABSDF survivors, relatives prepare petition and lawsuit; UN special adviser ends latest visit Condor schedules first Euro flight for November; 88 group leaders finally get passports; Free hotel booking at Yangon airport; IWT seeks some private investment; Hluttaw speaker promises independence for judiciary; Democracy day marked in capital for second year; Senior bureaucrats on the move in another reshuffle; Tatmadaw also needs to reform: ASEAN; SNLD leader to attend UN General Assembly; New round of Kachin peace talks stalled by disagreement on venue; Mekong murder suspects plead guilty: Xinhua; Call issued for history curriculum changes; Press body re-formed following complaints; Hpakant IDPs denied access to assistance; Community groups to lobby for better aged care this week; New party sets target of putting farmers in hluttaw; MPs upbeat as fourth session ends; VOA travellers holding up immigration queues; Yangon marks International Day of Peace; Rakhine parties discuss possible merger; Human rights group calls for prisoner monitoring body; Democracy day marked in Nay Pyi Taw; Myanmar facing growing drug challenge; Saudi Arabia to grant 5000 Hajj visas; MMA to launch ambulance services in October; SNLD leader to attend UN General Assembly with president; ?Help us build a new Myanmar?; Shift in forced labour complaints from govt to private sector; Time to review the state of our higher education; Telecoms giants jostle ahead of licence tender; By Victoria Bruce | Monday, 17 September 2012 Conference depends on ethnic groups: U Aung Min; Arrests in Monywa as mine protests escalate; U Thein Sein to make first US trip as president; BBC pushes for Myanmar presence; State-owned enterprises to become public firms: ministry; Govt warns of urbanisation issues; Refugees may go home in 2013; Government makes pledge on safety of negotiators; UNHCR unable to access refugees; Indonesia Red Cross lends hand in Rakhine; Young doctors face job shortage; Public IT company to be established; US to submit statement on ASEAN relations; UN special adviser meets President in Nay Pyi Taw; Late monsoons increase risk coral bleaching.