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International pressure on the military junta in Myanmar is growing, with the UN Security Council calling for the release of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

YANGON: Hundreds of teachers and students protested at a Myanmar university on Friday as the military widened a dragnet against officials ousted in a coup that has drawn global condemnation and the threat of new sanctions. The rally took place after the arrest of Win Htein, a key aide to national leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi, who has not been seen in public since being detained along with president Win Myint on Monday. A representative of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy said on Friday s...

Myanmar military blocks internet access, Kiwis advised to avoid crowds and input SafeTravel details for updates.

‘We will never be together with them. We want that kind of government to collapse as soon as possible’

As armed police officers stood behind riot shields, marchers called for “democracy to rise, military dictatorship to fall” and sang protest anthems that once brought prison sentences.

Myanmar junta blocks mobile internet, broadband access as protests against military coup expand The broad outage followed Fridays government order to block Twitter and Instagram that said some people were trying to use the platforms to spread what it deemed fake news The Associated Press February 06, 2021 18:59:53 IST A Myanmar woman living in South Korea shouts slogans a...

Nay Pyi Taw: Former Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been in detention since the military took control of the country earlier this week,

Myanmar’s new military authorities appear to have cut most access to the internet as they face a rising tide of protest over their coup that toppled Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government.

Numerous internet users in Myanmar noted a slow disappearance of services, especially from mobile service providers, that accelerated sharply late Saturday morning.

Published on: Saturday, February 06, 2021 By: AFP Text Size: Teachers from Yangon University of Education wear red ribbons and pose with a three-finger salute as they take part in a demonstration against the military in Yangon. (Reuters) YANGON: Several hundred teachers and students protested at a Myanmar university Friday as the military widened a dragnet against officials ousted in a coup that has drawn global condemnation and the threat of new sanctions. The rally took place after the arrest...