FACTBOX: Global reaction to Myanmar protests

(Reuters) - Nine protesters were killed and 11 wounded in Myanmar's main city on Thursday in a crackdown on the biggest anti-junta demonstrations in nearly 20 years, state television said

Following is some of the reaction around the world to the protests in Myanmar and the junta's crackdown.

WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN TONY FRATTO:

"The world is watching. We also need the world acting," he said, calling it "an outrageous situation".

JAPAN'S CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY NOBUTAKA MACHIMURA:

"What Myanmar is doing is wrong."

After 50-year-old Japanese photographer Kenji Nagai found dead in Yangon: "We will protest to the Myanmar government and seek clarification of the truth."

CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESWOMAN JIANG YU:

"As a neighbor, China is extremely concerned about the situation in Myanmar."

"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."

OFFICIAL XINHUA NEWS AGENCY REPORT CARRIED IN CHINESE

NEWSPAPERS:

"Myanmar authorities have been using restraint in handling the demonstrating monks and have not used force to disperse the demonstrators."

U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE CHRISTOPHER HILL:

"I think all countries need to use all the influence that they have. I think every country has some influence with Burma, and I think China is certainly one of those," he told reporters.

VICE PRESIDENT OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT EDWARD MCMILLAN-SCOTT: