Burmese move 'driven by fears of US attack'

Foreign diplomats and UN representatives are bewildered by Burma’s secretive military regime transferring its government ministries out of Rangoon, in a bizarre move analysts say is driven by fears of an American attack.

Convoys of trucks laden with personnel and equipment from ministries headed out of Rangoon on Sunday for the provincial trading post of Pyinmana, about 250 miles to the north, destined to be the country’s new capital.