Several deadlines for ethnic cease-fire groups to become border guard forces (BGF) under the military government have now passed. The latest deadline was Sunday.

Burma's state-run TV announces that laws have been released regarding an election commission, the party registration process, and for members of parliament and regional legislatures.

The former leader of the Kachin Independence Organization who formed the Kachin State Progressive Party invites students and women in Myitkyina to campaign for the party.

The junta is delaying announcement of the election law to handicap opposition parties and give more time to pro-junta parties

Burma's military authorities try unsuccessfully to pressure Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi into accepting the government's election process in return for their release.

Several participants express support for the 2010 election at a recent political forum in Rangoon involving dissidents, politicians, former political prisoners and students.

Burma's first general elections in two decades will be free, fair and credible, the country's foreign minister told his Southeast Asian neighbors at a regional conference in Vietnam.

Several ethnic leaders reaffirm that they will not participate in the election without a review of the 2008 Constitutional and the release of all political prisoners.

One of Japan's leading dailies, citing a Burmese military source, says this year's election is slated to take place on October 10.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says Burmese Snr-Gen Than Shwe should set clear dates for the 2010 election.