Dash for gas gives Myanmar the bus stop blues
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To cut down on costly imports of petroleum, of which  Myanmar does not have much, its ruling generals want every  vehicle in the country to run on natural gas, of which it has  plenty.
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A total of 27 people were killed and 11 injured last week when ethnic rebels attacked two passenger buses in southeastern Myanmar, state media said Monday.
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As the bus slows for a police checkpoint, hawkers rush up pushing ears of corn, sodas and fried treats toward the open windows.
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Routemaster buses, red telephone boxes, high street bank branches - are becoming endangered species, nostalgic protests inevitably follow.
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Years of civil war and abuse of ethnic  minorities in eastern Myanmar by the ruling military junta have  left the region more like the grimmest corners of Africa or  Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, a new report said on Thursday.
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Motorists were warned to &quot;exercise caution&quot; when refuelling their cars after thousands were apparently sold contaminated fuel, leading to hundreds of breakdowns.
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Myanmar's crackdown on protests against huge fuel price rises drew condemnation from the United States and expressions of dismay from other Asia-Pacific nations on Friday, but its ruling generals appeared defiant.
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Myanmar&#39;s Prime Minister Gen. Khin Nyunt, makes a point during a meeting with Singapore&#39;s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, in this Sept.
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Myanmar's military junta lifted a curfew  in the country's main city Yangon on Saturday which was imposed  last month after mass protests that prompted a crackdown.
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Banlao, where neighboring Myanmar looms visible in the distance, has become a center of heroin trafficking.
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KYAING TONG, Myanmar  - At night, the gilded Buddha standing imperiously on a hill overlooking Kyaing Tong is one of the few spots of light in the inky blackness of eastern Myanmar's Shan hills.
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Myanmar&#39;s military junta has pledged to stick by its &quot;roadmap to democracy,&quot; but analysts said on Friday what little credibility the plan had has been shattered by the purge
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A shortage of fuel in Nepal prompted by strikes and protests in the south forced the shutdown of much of the capital's public transportation system Wednesday
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Fuel supplies to the Nepalese capital almost run out because of road blockade in the south, officials say.
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High gasoline prices already had most people cutting back on driving before the shutdown of an Alaska pipeline threatened to push costs even higher. However, few drivers are making bigger changes, such as carpooling or using mass transit.
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Myanmar's military regime has ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross out of key border areas and rejected moves to resume prison visits.
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Trucks carrying diesel and gas drove into fuel-starved Katmandu on Tuesday after the government stepped up highway security, arriving for the capital's first deliveries since they were disrupted by a week-old general strike.