Hello.
Reuters, Jan. 25, 2010: The pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will be freed when her house arrest ends in November, according to a government minister quoted by witnesses on Monday, but critics said that may be too late for this year’s elections. Maj. Gen. Maung Oo, the home minister, told a Jan. 21 meeting of businessmen and local officials that Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi would be released in November, a month after Myanmar is expected to hold its first parliamentary elections in two decades.

Mizzima, an Indian-based exile magazine, refracts this tidbit here through the dismissals of National League for Democracy party leaders, who respond that the announcement carries scarcely any significance because Maunt Oo delivers it word of mouth without the weight of an official announcement.

But notice that said article doesn't even amount to top billing on Mizzima's site (another version is buried inside the Irrawaddy under "Haiti Aid Response Far Better than Nargis" -- and more on that in second). When it comes to the hazy pronouncements of the junta on details of expansions to basic freedoms or the like, the news judgment of Burmese editors, much like general opinion, is apparently soaked in cynicism.