 |  | About 140 Iranian prisoners detained during protests against last month's disputed election have been released, officials say. |
| A group of Nigerian Islamist militants is barricaded in a district of Maiduguri, after two days of violence that left scores dead. | | A team of robots designed to deal with the risks posed by gas cylinders at fire scenes has been demonstrated in London. |
Tue. 28 Jul 2009 1307 UTC
US Envoy Meets Israeli PM in Jerusalem
Washington says Israel must freeze settlement construction to promote peace, but Israel says it must continue building to allow for settlements' 'natural growth'
US Defense Secretary Makes Unannounced Visit to Iraq
Robert Gates meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to discuss US military's evolving role in country's security
Iran to Release 140 Post-Election Detainees
In other news, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei orders closure of jail where some political prisoners are believed to be held
US, Chinese Officials Talk Health, Economy
Second and final day of talks focuses on health care, poverty, energy
Trial of Burma's Democracy Leader Concludes; Verdict Expected Friday 
Prosecutors accuse Aung San Suu Kyi of violating terms of house arrest by allowing American John Yettaw to rest at her home after he swam there uninvited
| QUOTE OF THE DAY | |
 |  In those long and often dark years, Aung San Suu Kyi has remained a symbol of hope, courage and the undying defense of human rights  — Irene Khan, secretary-general of Amnesty International, after announcing that Suu Kyi would be honored with Amnesty’s highest accolade, the Ambassador of Conscience Award. |
Suu Kyi Insists Her Trial Will Test Rule of Law in Burma |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| Aung San Suu Kyi has insisted after a final session of her trial before Friday’s scheduled verdict that the proceedings would show “whether or not the rule of law exists in the country,” according to her lawyer Nyan Win. |
Suu Kyi Verdict Set for Friday |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| The defense concludes its arguments, and the judge will deliver a verdict on Friday. |
Asean May Request Development Funds for Burma |
| By WAI MOE |
| The Southeast Asian bloc may ask the international community to invest in development projects in Burma, says the Malaysian foreign minister. |
Seventh H1N1 Flu Case Reported in Burma |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| A 25-year-old man infected with the H1N1 virus is confirmed in Rangoon. |
Burma Prepares to Import Onions |
| By LAWI WENG |
| Onion prices double in Rangoon, prompting authorities to import onions from India. |
Philippine President Vows Not to Seek Fresh Term |
| By HRVOJE HRANJSKI |
| MANILA, Philippines— Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, faced with the prospect of civil unrest unless she steps down at the end of her term, has vowed not to try to extend her time in office. |
Legally Suu Kyi is innocent: Defence lawyer
The over two-month long trial of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi points to her innocence, legally and the verdict to be pronounced on Friday will put to acid...Aung San Suu Kyi supporters gather around Insein prison
(Video) Aung San Suu Kyi supporters gather around Insein prisonNew report on ‘food security’ in BurmaAgricultural credit should be made available in order to prevent rural indebtedness and to improve agricultural production in Burma, said Dr. Noeleen Heyzer the Executive Secretary of... | Court verdict of Suu Kyi’s trial on July 31The special court in Rangoon’s Insein prison heard the final arguments and responses on Tuesday and will pronounce a verdict on Friday on the trial of detained opposition leader Aung... |
တကယ္ေတာ့ (ဘံုစနစ္က်င့္သံုးေနတဲ့ ေရွးေဟာင္းလူ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္းအဆင့္ လူ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြကလြဲရင္) လူ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမွာ လူတန္းစားေတြ တည္ရွိေန တယ္ ဆိုတာ ကို အသိအမွတ္ျပဳၾကတာခ်ည္းပါပဲ။ လူတန္းစားေတြတည္ရွိေနတဲ့ လူ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမွာ လူမႈအျခင္းအရာေတြမွန္သမွ်ဟာ လူတန္းစားနဲ႔ ကင္းလြတ္ တာရယ္လို႔ ဘာတခုမွ မရွိပါဘူး။ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈမွာေတာင္မွ အခြင့္ထူးခံ လူတန္းစား ရဲ႕ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ (elite culture) နဲ႔ အမ်ားျပည္သူ႔ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ (popular culture) ရယ္လို႔ ကြဲျပားျခားနားပါတယ္။ အက်ဳိးစီးပြားခ်င္း အျပန္အလွန္ ပဋိပကၡ ေတြျဖစ္ေနၿပီး အက်ိဳးစီးပြားခ်င္း လုေန သို႔မဟုတ္ ထိန္းညိႇေနရတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရး နယ္ပယ္မွာ လူတန္းစားတည္ရွိမႈကို အသိအမွတ္မျပဳတာဟာ ပကတိ အျဖစ္မွန္ကို မျမင္တာ သို႔မဟုတ္ တမင္ျငင္းကြယ္တာသာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီတရပ္ဟာ မိမိဘယ္လူ တန္းစားရဲ႕ ပါတီလဲဆိုတာကို အသိအမွတ္ျပဳရမွန္း မသိ သို႔မဟုတ္ အသိအမွတ္မျပဳေပမယ့္ အဲဒီပါတီဟာ လူတန္းစားတရပ္ရပ္ရဲ႕ ပါတီျဖစ္ေနတယ္ ဆိုတာကေတာ့ ေသခ်ာပါတယ္။
