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Myanmar bus blast kills 7 passengers, preliminary findings show gas tank exploded AP YANGON, Myanmar –– An explosion on a bus in Myanmar’s largest city killed seven passengers Monday, officials said, adding that a preliminary investigation did not point to terrorism.

Pickup truck explodes in Myanmar, killing seven Submitted by Marina Dimova on Mon, 10/13/2008 - 08:04. Myanmar Yangon A gas-powered pickup truck exploded early Monday on the outskirts of Yangon, killing seven people, military sources confirmed.

India, Myanmar to hold further trade talks in Mandalay The Minister of State for Commerce and Power, Shri Jairam Ramesh is heading an official delegation for trade and investment talks with the Government of Myanmar in Mandalay on 14th and 15th October 2008.

Yangon - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has submitted an appeal against the government's latest extension of her house arrest - arguing that it violates the country's laws, sources said Saturday. read more

So, how many current US news stories have informed you about the connection between N Korea and Myanmar/Burma exchange of nuclear technology?  As far back as 2002: US Warns Myanmar On Nuclear Reactor Aspirations Myanmar activists staged a protest Tuesday outside the Russian Embassy in Malaysia,

ရန္ကုန္မွာ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာဝယ္ရင္ ဘယ္ေလာက္ကုန္က်ႏုိင္မလဲဆိုတာ သိႏုိင္ဖို႕ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ အင္တာနက္မွာ လုိက္ရွာၾကည့္ဖူးတယ္။ မေတြ႕ဘူးဗ်။ မိတ္ေဆြတို႕သိရင္ေတာ့ ေျပာျပပါဗ်ာ။ Alpha ရဲ႕ ဒီေနရာမွာေတာ့ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာေစ်းႏႈန္းကုိ အသင့္တြက္ခ်က္ႏုိင္ပါတယ္။ အခု ကၽြန္ေတာ္တင္ထားတာကေတာ့ ျပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ရက္ပုိင္းက အင္တာနက္ကဖီးတစ္ခု လုပ္ခ်င္တဲ့

Myanmar generals still in firm control Submitted by Mohit Joshi on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 07:01. Myanmar Yangon Yangon (Myanmar), Sept. 26: The ruling military junta in Myanmar still remains in firm control of the country and its affairs even a year after it began a deadly crackdown on thousands of Buddhist monks protesting sharp rises in the price of food and fuel.

Pakistani police have arrested a taxicab driver for allegedly providing pick and drop facility to suicide bombers in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. "RAWALPINDI: A suspected handler of suicide bombers has been arrested from Rawalpindi on Thursday.According to the sources,... read more

Bomb blast in Yangon injures seven Submitted by Sahil Nagpal on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 07:21. Myanmar Yangon Yangon - A bomb blast in central Yangon Thursday morning injured seven people, witnesses said. The blast was near the Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) which is near the Sule Pagoda.

Win Maw (above) was always running a risk by sending news from the protests in Rangoon to an overseas radio station last year. But when the police caught up with him in November, they had a problem. He hadn’t actually done anything illegal.