 |  | Taliban suicide bombers strike government targets in Khost, eastern Afghanistan, the latest attack ahead of August polls. |
| Voting is under way for a new president and parliament in Iraqi Kurdistan, with the ruling coalition facing a strong challenge. | | The last British survivor to have fought in the World War I trenches, Harry Patch, has died at the age of 111. |
Sat. 25 Jul 2009 1107 UTC
Iraqi Kurds Vote Amid Dispute With Baghdad
About 2.5 million people eligible to vote in Iraqi Kurdistan, region in northern Iraq that includes three provinces - Irbil, Dahuk, Sulaimaniyah
Violence Erupts in Eastern Afghan City
Afghan military authorities say Taliban militants carried out simultaneous attacks in Khost, with at least three suicide bombers targeting government and police buildings
Pakistani Court Delays Mumbai Attack Case for Month
During closed briefing, judge hears brief statements from both sides before delaying case until August 29
Bush Debated Troops to Arrest in US
'New York Times' reports then-Vice President Dick Cheney, other senior advisors, advocated troops should arrest group of al-Qaida-linked suspects in upstate New York in 2002
WHO Says Swine-Flu Virus Could Infect 2 Billion
Senior official says global epidemic still in its early stages
Suu Kyi Unsatisfied with Trial Delay: Lawyer |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she is unhappy with the latest delay in the trial against her, according one of her lawyers. |
KNU Rejects Junta Report |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| The KNU has rejected a report in Burma’s The New Light of Myanmar that 22 of their soldiers recently defected to the Burmese army. |
OPINION
All Talk, No Traction |
| By AUNG ZAW |
| The debate over Burma cannot move forward as long as the country’s junta remains stuck in a rut of denial. |
Weekly Business Roundup (July 24, 2009) |
| By WILLIAM BOOT |
| A ban on imports from Burma has been renewed for one year by the US House of Representatives |
ဘန္ေကာက္ပို ့သတင္းစာတြင္ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံတစ္ခုလံုးတြင္ လူေပါင္း ၄၄ ေယာက္ ေသဆံုးခဲ့ျပီး ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ျပီးခဲ့ေသာ တစ္ပတ္အတြင္း ထိုင္း တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးတြင္ လူေပါင္း ၂၀ ေသဆံုးခဲ့သည္။ ႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းရွိ စာသင္ေက်ာင္း ၁၂၈ ေက်ာင္းကိုပိတ္ထားျပီး ေရာဂါျဖစ္ေနသူ ၂၀၀ ေက်ာ္ ေရာဂါ ခံစားေနရျပီး ေသဆံုးမႈရွိခဲ့သည္။ ေေရာဂါကူးစက္ခံထားရသည့္ ေက်ာင္းသား/သူ ၆၀၀၀ခန္႔့ကို အထူး ေစာင့္ၾကည္ေနသည္။ ဇူလိုင္လပထမပတ္တြင္ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းရွိ ပုဂၢလိက ေက်ာင္း မ်ားႏွင့္ အင္တာနက္ဆိုင္မ်ားကို ပိတ္ထားမည္ဟု ထိုင္းအစိုးရမွ တရား၀င္ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း ေနာက္ပိုင္းတြင္ ၀က္တုပ္ေကြး ေရာဂါျဖစ္ပြား ကူးစက္မႈႏွင့္ ေသဆံုးမႈတို႔ကို ျပည္သူမ်ား အထိတ္တလန္ ့ မျဖစ္ေစလို သျဖင့္ ထုတ္ျပန္မႈ မရွိေတာ့ေၾကာင္း သိရွိရသည္။
We have the law on our side, but we don't know if the judges are on our side.
နအဖရဲ႕ ၂ဝ၁ဝ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲနီးလာတာနဲ႔အမွ် နအဖရဲ႕ လမ္းျပေျမပံုထဲက နံပါတ္ (၆) အဆင့္ကို အကာအကြယ္ေတြေပးတာ၊ ေထာက္ခံတာေတြ ဆက္တိုက္ေပၚထြက္လာတယ္ လို႔ နားလည္မိပါတယ္။ စစ္အစိုးရ အဆက္ဆက္ လက္ထက္မွာ ရာစုႏွစ္ တဝက္နီးပါး အသက္ရွင္လာခဲ့သူတဦးအေနနဲ႔ ဒီလို အခ်ိန္ အခါမွာ ဒီလိုေရးသူေတြေပၚတယ္ဆိုတာက တရားတခုလို႔ပဲ သေဘာ ထားမိပါတယ္။ မအံ့ၾသမိေၾကာင္း ဝန္ခံလိုက္ပါရေစ။ ဘယ္သူေတြကေရးမလဲ။ ဘယ္လိုေတြေရးမလဲဆိုတာဘဲ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္မိခဲ့တာပါ။ အခုေတာ့ အစီအရီ၊ အယူအဆတမ်ိဳးစီနဲ႔ ထြက္လာၾက ပါၿပီ။ ဒီေနရာမွာ တမ်ိဳးစီဆိုလို႔ အႏွစ္သာရနဲ႔ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ဟာ တခုနဲ႔တခု ကြဲျပားတယ္လို႔ မဆိုလိုပါဘူး။ အဲဒီသေဘာနဲ႔ ေျပာရရင္ေတာ့ ၿဗိဇံုနဲ႔ၿဗံဳဇိေတြပါ။ 
