KEY STORY: • Ban says ‘no?... INSIDE BURMA: • Daw Suu watch... HUMAN RIGHTS: • Prison sentences; • Prison transfers; • Detention conditions... DISPLACEMENT: • Migrant workers hit; • Deaths, detention, deportation; • Exodus from Arakan State... ECONOMY: • Rice trade and shortages; • Financial crisis; • New deals, more shame... CHRONOLOGY... REPORTS......• The SPDC continues to sentence activists to lengthy prison terms and to transfer political prisoners to Burma?s most remote prisons. Approximately 276 activists have been sentenced so far in this year, some with multiple jail terms. • Ban says ‘no? to calls to return to Burma. • Ethnic nationalities continue to flee to neighboring countries to escape persecution and crippling poverty. • As a consequence of the global financial crisis, migrant workers are fired and deported to Burma. • Farmers report failing harvests. Despite this, the regime continues to increase rice exports. • The SPDC says that Burma?s economy will not be affected by the global financial crisis and that the agricultural sector can employ ?millions” more. • SPDC refuses to let Daw Aung San Suu Kyi meet her lawyer.