China gives 225 railway carriages to Myanmar

October 7th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh has cancelled leave of its border guards and stepped up army deployment on its border with Myanmar, alleging large-scale intrusion and to protest against the eastern neighbour erecting a border fence. Tension mounted along the Naikhyangchhari border in Bandarban after Myanmar resumed border fencing Friday.

October 5th, 2009 SILIGURI - The northern West Bengal town of Siliguri will have a new railway recruitment centre, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee announced here Monday. Flagging off the weekly New Jalpaiguri-Digha Paharia Express connecting North Bengal with the coastal tourist town of Digha in East Midnapore district, Banerjee said the recruitment centre would start functioning within two months.

September 9th, 2009 LASHIO - A Chinese intelligence tip-off about an illegal arms factory led to fighting that caused 30,000 ethnic Kokang refugees to flee across the Myanmar border into southern China, a Myanmar government official claimed Wednesday. The remarks by Myanmar Deputy Home Affairs Minister Brigadier General Phone Swe seemed designed to defuse China's annoyance at last month's influx of thousands of Kokang refugees into Yunnan province.

September 2nd, 2009 YANGON - South Korea's Daewoo International Company will invest $1.7 billion in gas exploration and production projects in western Myanmar, in which two Indian companies have a combined stake of 25 percent, a media report said Wednesday. The gas produced from the Rakhine offshore area will be exported to China in 2013, the weekly Voice reported citing company officials.

September 1st, 2009 BEIJING - China Tuesday urged the Myanmar junta to restore order and stability at their border following unrest that triggered mass exodus of Myanmarese into the Communist country. "Safeguarding the stability of the China-Myanmar border is in line with the vital interests of both governments," said Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu.

August 30th, 2009 Myanmar says 26 forces, 8 rebels killed at borderYANGON, Myanmar — The Myanmar junta has ended a news blackout about clashes with ethnic rebels near the China border, saying three days of fighting killed 26 government forces and at least eight rebels. A government announcement read aloud on state-run TV news broadcasts said the fighting had ended.

July 31st, 2009 CARACAS - Venezuela and China signed a $7.5 billion agreement Thursday that includes the construction of a 468-km railway in the country with Chinese support, officials said. Public Works Minister Diosdado Cabello told reporters that the railway - which will run from the town of Tinaco, in the northwestern state of Cojedes, to Anaco, a city in the northeastern state of Anzoategui - is the biggest project Venezuela is undertaking outside of the oil industry.

July 24th, 2009 Trial of Aung San Suu Kyi resumes in MyanmarYANGON, Myanmar — A Myanmar official says the trial of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has resumed. The widely criticized proceedings started up again Friday with defense lawyers and prosecutors expected to present final arguments.

July 16th, 2009 Foreign investment in Myanmar soarsYANGON, Myanmar — Foreign investment in Myanmar swelled sixfold to almost $1 billion in the last fiscal year, most of it coming from China, according to government statistics seen Thursday. A Ministry of National Planning and Development statistical survey showed that foreign investment jumped to $984.9 million in the fiscal year that ended in March 2009 from $172.7 million the previous year.

June 29th, 2009 BEIJING - At least three people died and 60 were injured when two passenger trains collided in central China's Hunan province early Monday. The collision, which derailed several carriages and a locomotive, took place at the railway station in Hunan's Chenzhou city, state media reported.

June 29th, 2009 CHANGSHA - At least three people were killed and 60 injured as two passenger trains collided in central China's Hunan province Monday morning. The accident took place at 2.34 a.m.

June 26th, 2009 UN envoy arrives in MyanmarYANGON, Myanmar — Officials say the U.N. special envoy to Myanmar has arrived in the country to pave the way for a possible visit by U.N.

June 18th, 2009 GUWAHATI - India's plans of reopening the historic World War II Stilwell Road, linking the country to China via Myanmar, has come a cropper with Yangon rejecting moves to allow its territory for resuming age old road links, an official here said Thursday. "The plan as of now stands cancelled with Myanmar objecting to the reopening of the Stilwell Road for security reasons," Minister for the Development of the Northeastern Region (DoNER) Bijoy Krishna Handique told journalists.

June 16th, 2009 BEIJING - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping said Tuesday that Beijing wanted to promote comprehensive, stable and lasting relations with Myanmar. Peaceful coexistence has been the cornerstone of China's diplomacy and the two countries should promote projects to boost trade, Xi said during a meeting here with Myanmar's visiting state peace and development council vice chairman Maung Aye.

January 22nd, 2009 RANCHI - Indian Railways Friday paid tributes to freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose by renaming a railway station in Jharkhand after him. Railways Minister Lalu Prasad announced the new name of the Gomo railway station that comes under the Dhanbad railway division.