EIN News: Myanmar Accidents News

Pillay is leaving the bench to stand up

25 Jul 2008 07:27 GMT

... tuition for Pillay, the daughter of a bus driver, and planted in her, she said, ... speak out. On a recent visit to Myanmar to ensure aid for cyclone victims, Ban ... with questions of whether it had been derailed. But the timing was just a matter ...

Two dead in China bus blasts

25 Jul 2008 04:48 GMT

... people were killed Monday in deliberately set explosions aboard two public buses in a major ... than three weeks before the Olympics. The blasts occurred about an hour apart during morning ... about 400 kilometres from Kunming near the Myanmar border. Police killed two people in the ...

Davao del Sur: bomb explodes on a bus, three dead 25 wounded

24 Jul 2008 10:34 GMT

... is an essay by one of the most influential dissidents in todays valign="top"> The Burmese Church continues its post-cyclone rescue work. In Pathein, the local bishop has set up ...

US calls Myanmar's promise of democracy a 'mockery'; Asia-Pacific nations flay junta

24 Jul 2008 08:17 GMT

... SINGAPORE (AP) - The United States blasted the Myanmar junta's oft-repeated promise to democratize as a ... the development of more pluralistic political systems. Burma is out of step, badly out of ...

Alert in Assam for I-Day

23 Jul 2008 19:17 GMT

... the forthcoming Independence Day celebrations. Disclosing that newly-trained Ulfa cadres have been asked to plant ... was responsible for triggering off a powerful explosion in a village market recently, has also ... Ulfa had retreated to safe sanctuary in Burma, security sources said that its "27th battalion" ...

Richardson Draws Upon Diplomacy, State Executive Experience in Run for President

23 Jul 2008 15:29 GMT

... go places where we have a difficult relationship or no relationship at all to see ... the Marxist government. August 1993: Traveled to Myanmar and became the first nonfamily member permitted ... remains of one who died in the crash. The surviving pilot was released eight days ...

Myanmar opposes investigative powers

22 Jul 2008 11:31 GMT

... been shot dead after going on a rampage in Jerusalem. Police say the driver crashed into a city bus and ... TomTom NV, Europe's largest maker of car navigational devices, reported a 24 percent drop in second-quarter profit Tuesday, but said its ...

No terror link in bus blasts

22 Jul 2008 10:16 GMT

... that a probe into two deadly bus explosions had not turned up any evidence that ... two people died on Monday in the blasts aboard two public buses in Kunming, 2 ... the capital of mountainous Yunnan province bordering Myanmar, remained tense on Tuesday, state media reported, ...

Airline accidents for the first half of 2008

22 Jul 2008 09:26 GMT

... casualties per accident, with many of the crashes involving pure freighters. There have also been ... has now banned all Antonov and Ilyushin aircraft manufactured in that period, joining Nigeria and ... February Air Bagan ATR72 (XY-AIE) Putao airport, Myanmar 2/3 57 TO The aircraft suffered engine ...

China says no Olympic terror link found in bus blasts

22 Jul 2008 08:53 GMT

... said two people died Monday in the blasts aboard two public buses in Kunming, 2,100 ... evidence that terrorist groups were behind the explosions and whether there was any connection to ... Chinese rule.

At least 2 killed in China bus explosions

22 Jul 2008 07:32 GMT

... used to transport Bolivian President Evo Morales crashed in central Bolivia over the weekend. Morales ... bureau. Police said preliminary findings showed the blasts were deliberate, making them the first clear-cut ... Monday. The report by the U.N., the Myanmar government and Southeast Asia's main bloc provides ...

Bus explosions heighten Olympic security concerns

22 Jul 2008 06:19 GMT

... People pass by the bus after an explosion in Kunming, Yunnan province, yesterday Two people ... likely to heighten Olympic security concerns. The blasts occurred about an hour apart during morning ... 400km from Kunming near the border with Myanmar. Police killed two people in the clash, ...

Storms with high winds knock out power for 200,000 in Iowa

22 Jul 2008 06:17 GMT

... Monday's joint report by the U.N., the Myanmar government and the Association of Southeast Asian ... crowded Baghdad intersection while responding to a car bombing and killed 17 Iraqis. Blackwater executives ... lower. 2 killed, 4 missing in B-52 crash HONOLULU An unarmed Air Force B-52 ...

Pitchfork Hosts a Perma-Rock Festival

22 Jul 2008 03:55 GMT

... Hold Us Back," along with Mission of Burma ("Vs.," 1982) and Sebadoh ("Bubble and Scrape," ... sound effects (piercing whistles, alarms, subharmonic bass blasts) that evoked the swampy vortex of ... are fairly cheap, and even the corporate sponsorship is of the "soft" variety, including Whole ...

Bus bomb explosions kill two

22 Jul 2008 02:35 GMT

... Last updated: July 22 2008 03:00 Bomb blasts on two buses in the southern Chinese ... according to local police, who said the explosions were set deliberately but did not identify ... Yunnan province close to the border with Burma in which about 500 farmers attacked police ...