Backpacker turns Myanmar activist via Facebook

BACKPACKER TURNS MYANMAR ACTIVIST VIA FACEBOOK
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: David Fox]
A chance encounter in a Myanmar coffee shop turned teenage backpacker Alex Bookbinder into a political activist at the forefront of an Internet campaign that has attracted tens of thousands of supporters. Bookbinder, 19, is the creator of the "Support the monks protest in Burma" campaign on the Internet social networking phenomenon "Facebook."
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* Internet access restored briefly in Myanmar
Internet access was restored briefly in military-ruled Myanmar on Saturday, a day after a Web blackout believed to have been imposed to stop reports and pictures of a major crackdown reaching the outside world.
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