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Former UK ambassador, husband detained by Myanmar generals

Vicky Bowman and husband, Htein Lin, arrested in Yangon and investigated under the country’s Immigration Act.

Al Jazeera

UK’s former Myanmar ambassador arrested in Yangon, report says

Vicky Bowman and Burmese husband Htein Lin detained and charged with immigration offences

The Guardian - UK

‘Survival at any cost’: Myanmar generals move to cement power

Min Aung Hlaing firing military chiefs, senior politicians and moving against tycoons amid chaos triggered by 2021 coup.

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Myanmar activists say detained Japanese filmmaker attended protest

Myanmar authorities detained a Japanese documentary filmmaker after he attended a protest in the city of Yangon on the weekend against recent executions carried out by the military government, activists said on Monday.

Bangkok Post

Japanese video journalist detained at Myanmar protest march

Pro-democracy activists say Myanmar's military authorities have arrested a Japanese video journalist who was filming an anti-government protest in Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city

The Independent UK

Japanese man detained by Myanmar police at anti-coup protest

Myanmar police on Saturday detained a Japanese man who was taking part in an anti-coup protest in Yangon, local media reported.

Bangkok Post

Japanese man detained in Myanmar after filming protest -media

A Japanese man has been detained by authorities in Myanmar after filming a protest in the country's biggest city of Yangon, Jiji news agency reported on Sunday, citing Japanese government officials.

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‘We are not afraid’: anti-junta groups rail against Myanmar executions

State killings provoke horror and fear of wider crackdown on determined protest movement

The Guardian - UK

Myanmar executions: US presses China to rein in junta, saying it cannot be ‘business as usual’

State department says military government in Yangon has not faced enough economic and diplomatic pressure, amid global outrage at killings

The Guardian - UK

Myanmar junta executes 4 prisoners, including 2 pro-democracy rivals

YANGON: Myanmar's junta has executed four prisoners including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent activist, state media said Monday, in the country's first use of capital punishment in decades.

Bangkok Post

Australian embassy spends $750,000 at luxury hotel linked to Myanmar's military junta

Official documents reveal an Australian embassy spent $750,000 at a luxury hotel built on land owned and leased by Myanmar's military junta, with activists saying taxpayer dollars should not have been used.

ABC News

Myanmar marks 75th anniversary of killing of founding father

Myanmar’s military-ruled government and its opponents are marking the 75th anniversary of the assassination of independence hero Gen. Aung San, the father of the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi

The Independent UK

Myanmar suspends foreign loan repayments amid dollar crunch

YANGON: The Central Bank of Myanmar ordered companies and individual borrowers to suspend repayment of foreign loans, the latest in a series of steps to defend the nation’s dwindling foreign exchange reserves.

Bangkok Post

Bomb in Myanmar's Yangon kills 2, wounds 11

A bomb blast near a shopping mall in Myanmar's commercial hub Yangon has killed two people and wounded eleven, rescue workers and local media said on Wednesday.

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Pleas for help as Myanmar awaits high-profile executions

The wife of pro-democracy figure Kyaw Min Yu, sentenced to be executed on the orders of Myanmar's ruling generals, says that if her husband dies he will take with him the beliefs he has carried throughout a life spent fighting dictatorship.

The Independent UK

Yangon bombing spurs accusations from Myanmar govt, foes

Myanmar’s military government and its opponents are trading accusations over a bomb that exploded Tuesday in the middle of the country’s largest city, Yangon, killing one and wounding nine others

Reuters

Myanmar military, coup opponents trade blame after deadly bus stop blast

State media in Myanmar on Wednesday blamed "terrorists" opposed to military rule for a deadly bomb blast at a bus stop in its biggest city of Yangon, an accusation denied by members of an exiled shadow government.

Bangkok Post

One killed, 9 injured in Yangon bomb blast

A bomb blast killed one person and injured nine others in a busy district of central Yangon on Tuesday, a Myanmar police source told AFP.

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How the Karen became crucial to Myanmar’s anti-coup resistance

The Karen National Union is providing protection and training to anti-coup activists in eastern Myanmar.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar junta court convicts Suu Kyi of corruption

YANGON: A Myanmar junta court on Wednesday sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail for corruption, part of a barrage of criminal cases that could see the deposed civilian leader jailed for decades.

The Independent UK

Myanmar military government denies rumors of fuel shortages

Myanmar’s military government is denying that the country is suffering from a shortage of fuel, after rumors about low supplies of gasoline and diesel led to panic buying and long queues at service stations in several cities

Reuters

Myanmar junta says 1,600 prisoners to be freed in holiday amnesty

Relatives of hundreds of prisoners gathered outside Myanmar's Insein Prison on Sunday after the military government announced the release of 1,600 prisoners in an amnesty to mark the Southeast Asian nation's new year.

Reuters

Myanmar's deputy central bank governor shot and hospitalised -media

A deputy governor at Myanmar's central bank has been shot in an attack at her home in the Southeast Asian country's biggest city of Yangon and is being treated at a military hospital, media reports said.

Bangkok Post

Junta-appointed Myanmar central bank deputy head shot

The deputy governor of Myanmar's central bank was shot and wounded in her home in the commercial capital Yangon on Thursday, a junta spokesman told AFP, in the latest high-profile attack on military-linked officials.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar drinkers boycott military-owned beer brand

YANGON: When Japanese brewing giant Kirin called time on its Myanmar operations last month, the news made little difference to Kyaw Gyi -- like many drinkers, he had long boycotted the beer it produced with a military conglomerate.

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