Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor testifies at his war crimes trial in The Hague, dismissing the charges as "lies" and "rumours".
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Tue. 14 Jul 2009 1007 UTC
Ex-Liberian President Says War Crimes Case Against Him Built on 'Lies'
Charles Taylor is accused of supporting the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone, smuggling weapons to the rebels in exchange for so-called 'blood diamonds'
Civilian Helicopter Crashes in Afghanistan, 6 Dead
Officials say accident occurred early Tuesday, in Helmand province
Sotomayor Pledges Commitment to Law, Impartiality if Confirmed for High Court 
President Obama's nominee responds to critics as she completes first day of her nomination hearing before Senate Judiciary Committee
Beijing Vows to Protect Chinese in Africa From al-Qaida Threat
London risk analysis firm says Al Qaida's North African wing, Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, vows to target the 50,000 Chinese workers in Algeria and elsewhere in Africa
Former Rebels Go to Court Over Plot to Kill East Timor's President
Prosecutors charge mastermind behind assassination attempts against President Jose Ramos Horta is East Timorese-born Australian
| QUOTE OF THE DAY | |
 |  Without participation of Aung San Suu Kyi, without her being able to campaign freely, and without her NLD party [being able] to establish party offices all throughout the provinces, this [2010] election may not be regarded as credible and legitimate.  — United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon |
Burma’s Amnesty Announcement Draws Skepticism |
| By WAI MOE |
| Burmese dissidents view with caution an announcement by Burma’s United Nations ambassador that preparations are being made to release an unknown number of prisoners before the 2010 election. |
US, Britain and France Doubt Credible Election; China Calls for Lifting Sanctions |
| By LALIT K JHA |
| Three permanent members of the UN Security Council express skepticism that the 2010 election in Burma will be free and fair while China calls for a lifting of international sanctions. |
Mon Group Offered Alternative to Border Guard Proposal |
| By LAWI WENG |
| The Burmese army has suggested to the New Mon State Party that it should transform its armed wing into a militia group if it doesn’t want to take up border guard duties. |
Application for Migrant Worker Documents Begins |
| By LAWI WENG |
| Ten thousand Burmese migrant workers will receive Thailand identification papers in a new registration program that starts this month. |
Vietnam Charges Pro-democracy Activists |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| A Vietnamese novelist and five other pro-democracy activists have been charged with defaming the communist country's leaders. |
ETimor Rebels on Trial for Shooting President |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Rebel soldiers accused of trying to assassinate the president and prime minister of East Timor went on trial. |
Passport applications accepted in Muse
According to residents, local authorities in conjunction with a travel agent are issuing Burmese passports, valid for three years, from the northern Shan State town of Muse. The Rangoon......Burma preparing to free political prisoners
Military-ruled Burma has said it is preparing to release some political prisoners in order to allow them to participate in the 2010 general election, a part of the junta’s roadmap...Editorial, Opinion and Analysis
A cursed treasure – ‘Jade Land’ Hpakant
(News Analysis) While the world’s highest quality green stone, jade, continues to be a money maker for the military rulers of Burma, the precious gem has lite...
ဗမာအဖြဲ႔ အထူးစိတ္၀င္စားတာဟာ ေလေၾကာင္းရန္ကာကြယ္ေရးျဖစ္တယ္။ ၾကပ္ေျပးေနျပည္ေတာ္ဟာ ေလေၾကာင္းက တုိက္ခုိက္တာကုိ ခံရႏုိင္တယ္လုိ႔ စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ပုိင္းက ယုံၾကည္ေနပုံရပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ေျမာက္ကုိရီးယား ေလယာဥ္ပစ္ တပ္ဖြဲ႔က Anti-Aircraft Unit ေရဒါစနစ္တခုလုံး ေျမေအာက္မွာ ျမႇဳပ္ႏွံထားပုံကုိ ေလ့လာၾကတယ္။ ေရဒါက်င္းကုိ အျခမ္းႏွစ္ျခမ္းပါအဖုံးနဲ႔ အုပ္ထားတယ္။ အဖုံးအေပၚက သဘာ၀ေပါက္ပင္ေတြစုိက္ၿပီး ပုံဖ်က္ထားတယ္။ လုိအပ္တဲ့အခါမွ ေရဒါကုိ စက္နဲ႔ ေျမေပၚတင္ေပးၿပီး အသုံးျပဳတာကုိ ဗမာအဖြဲ႔က သိပ္အားက်တဲ့ပုံပဲ။
“မႏွစ္ ႏွစ္လယ္ပိုင္း ဦးေတဇ တ႐ုတ္နယ္စပ္ လာကတည္းက အဲဒီသတင္းေတြ ....”
