Two people died when a plane packed with Christmas tourists crash-landed on a road in central Burma today.

Ethnic Shan rebels have agreed in a second round of talks that there will be no more fighting between the guerrillas and Burmese government troops, a government negotiator said.

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake in Burma’s Shan State was felt in several provinces of northern Thailand, the Thai meteorology department said today.

MICHAEL described it as a ‘motorbike’ position.