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Myanmar closes international airport in Yangon after military takeover By Tuesday Feb 02, 2021 A Myanmar soldier stands guard in front of a Hindu temple in the downtown area in Yangon, Myanmar, February 2, 2021. — Reuters Myanmar closes its international airport in Yangon, its main gateway The airport's manager says it has been closed until May but gave no exact date A day earlier, the army staged a coup in response to "election fraud" Myanmar has closed its international airport in Yangon, its main gateway, the airport's manager said on Tuesday, a day after the country's army staged a co...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Scores of people in Myanmar's largest city honked car horns and banged on pots and pans Tuesday in the first known public resistance to the coup led a day earlier by the country's military. What was initially planned to take place for just a few minutes extended to more than a quarter-hour in several neighborhoods of Yangon. Shouts could be heard wishing detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi good health and calling for freedom. “Beating a drum in Myanmar culture is like we are kicking out the devils,” said one participant who declined to give his name for fear of repri...

President Joe Biden said the U.S. could reinstate sanctions on Myanmar if the Southeast Asian country’s military doesn’t “immediately relinquish the power they have seized” in a coup and release activists and officials.

Myanmar coup: Anger and anxiety after military seizes power and detains Aung San Suu Kyi CNN 2/2/2021 By Helen Regan, CNN © Stringer/AFP/Getty Images Soldiers stand guard along a blockaded road near Myanmar's Parliament in Naypyidaw on February 2, 2021, as Myanmar's generals appeared in firm control a day after a surgical coup that saw democracy heroine Aung San Suu Kyi detained. (Photo by STR / AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images) The streets of Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, appeared outwardly calm Tuesday morning, as residents made their way to work a day after th...

Ten years on, Myanmar military back in control ‘OPEN-AIR DETENTION CENTER’: One NLD lawmaker said parliamentarians are being detained in dormitories guarded by soldiers since the military coup on Monday AFP and AP, BANGKOK and YANGON, Myanmar The party of Myanmar’s toppled leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday demanded her immediate release, after a military coup that triggered global condemnation and sanctions threats from the new US president. Armed troops patrolled the capital, Naypyidaw, where Aung San Suu Kyi and other National League for D...