Detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, met the junta’s liaison officer, Aung Kyi on January 12. The meeting between Suu Kyi and Aung Kyi, who is also Minister of Labor, was the forth since the crackdown on pro-democracy protests in September last.1

Meanwhile, a bomb explosion at Naypyidaw railway station in Pyinmana on January 12 killed one woman. It was the first bomb blast since the military junta moved the capital to Naypyidaw from Rangoon in November 2005.2

• 1. “Suu Kyi meets Junta’s liaison officer again,” Irrawaddy, January 13, 2008, at http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=9912
• 2. “Bomb Blast in Pyinmana, One Woman Killed,” Irrawaddy, January 13, 2008, at http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=9911