SNAPSHOT: Latest developments in Myanmar protests

(Reuters) - Here are the latest developments in the pro-democracy protests in Myanmar on Thursday.

HEADLINES

* U.S. President George W. Bush appeals to China to pressure Myanmar after soldiers and police fire into crowds of demonstrators in its largest city.

* Nine protesters killed, 11 wounded in Yangon, state television says. Among those killed is a Japanese photographer.

* The association of Southeast Asian Nations voices "revulsion" at the killings, in unusually blunt language.

* Myanmar government agrees to receive a United Nations envoy to discuss the crisis.

* U.S. Treasury imposes sanctions on 14 senior Myanmar government officials.

* China, one of Myanmar's few allies, calls for restraint for the first time.

* Monks rounded up and shoved onto trucks in raids on monasteries. One monk killed; scores kicked and beaten by soldiers.

QUOTES

"Doors of the monasteries were broken, things were ransacked and taken away. It's like a living hell seeing the monasteries raided and the monks treated cruelly." - witness

"I call on all nations that have influence with the regime to join us in supporting the aspirations of the Burmese people and to tell the Burmese junta to cease using force on its own people who are peacefully expressing their desire for change." - U.S. President George W. Bush

ASEAN ministers "expressed their revulsion to Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win over reports that the demonstrations in Myanmar are being suppressed by violent force and that there has been a number of fatalities". - statement from the nine other ASEAN foreign ministers

"Clearly having let the demonstrations run for seven or eight days last week they have concluded that they need to use force to bring them to an end. I think probably overnight they went back to the drawing board and thought through what they should do and concluded they should increase the level of violence, which sadly appears to be the case." - British Ambassador to Myanmar, Mark Canning

"We hope that all parties in the Myanmar issue will maintain restraint and appropriately handle the problems that have currently arisen so they do not become more complicated or expand, and don't affect Myanmar's stability and even less affect regional peace and stability." - Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu.