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. Continued...







