Ford Motor said on Tuesday will open a showroom in Yangon by the end of the year, making it the first US automaker to enter Myanmar after the rollback of sanctions in the once junta-ruled nation. The firm will sell and service vehicles with a local partner firm, as it seeks to tap demand in a nation where huge import taxes and a US investment ban aimed at the previous regime meant cars were too expensive for many.

A fire blamed on an electrical fault killed 13 teenage boys at a Muslim school in Myanmar's main city Tuesday, police and witnesses said, raising fears of a further eruption of tensions after a wave of religious unrest. Police and soldiers flanked the scorched blue mosque and religious school in central Yangon, where dozens of children had been sleeping when the blaze broke out early Tuesday. Authorities launched an inquiry into the fire, stressing that early indications suggested a tragic accident. Police said two guards at the building had been charged with negligence.

A fire blamed on an electrical fault killed 13 teenagers at a Muslim school in Myanmar's main city Tuesday, police and witnesses said, raising fears of a further eruption of tensions after a wave of religious unrest. Dozens of police and soldiers flanked the building in Yangon as the government urged people not to believe rumours about the cause of the fire, which comes just days after Buddhist-Muslim killings and arson spread across areas of central Myanmar.

By Aung Hla Tun and Min Zayar Oo YANGON (Reuters) - A fire caused by faulty electrical equipment killed 13 boys at an Islamic school in Myanmar on Tuesday, the fire service said, although some Muslims voiced concern since it followed a wave of anti-Muslim violence in the Buddhist-majority country. The boys suffocated after the fire broke out in a dormitory of the school in the central, multi-ethnic Botataung district of the former capital of Yangon at about 2:40 a.m. (2010 GMT on Monday).