Myanmar generals hire lobbyist as anti-coup protests continue
Security forces in Myanmar have stormed a compound housing striking railway workers and surrounded hundreds of anti-coup protesters in two places in the main city of Yangon, as the country’s generals hired a Canadian lobbying firm to help “explain the real situation” in the Southeast Asian nation. Photos and videos posted on social media on Wednesday showed police sealing off the Mingalar Taung Nyunt neighbourhood where the Ma Hlwa Gone train station and housing for railway workers are located. Many of the railway staff are part of a civil disobedience movement that has crippled governm...