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Posted: Feb 20, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: February 20 Members of the LGBTQ community protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, on Friday. A wide swathe of Myanmar's civilian population is protesting the coup, something the military generals may not have planned for.(Reuters) On the streets of Yangon, the mood captured by news cameras seems friendly, even festive. Young people with brightly painted faces and determined looks fill parks and intersections day after day. Their signs ask "Where is democracy?" Not here. For all the upbeat music and colourful costumes, worry weighs...

The Daily Universe FILE – In this Feb. 1, 2021, file photo, Toni Winter, left, chants as she marches with members of Community Justice Initiative and supporters to the Rochester Police Department’s Clinton Section, protesting the police handcuffing and pepper spray of a 9-year-old Black girl in Rochester, N.Y. A police officer using pepper spray against the girl has spurred outrage as the latest example of law enforcement mistreatment of Black people, and one that shows even Black children are not exempt. (Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Democrat & Chronicle via AP, File) What started with a repor...

Businesses start to rethink Myanmar as coup ignites protests Elaine Kurtenbach Tags:  Police in riot gear for am line blocking protesters during a demonstration in Mandalay, Myanmar, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. Protesters continued to gather Tuesday morning in major cities breaching Myanmar's new military rulers' ban of public gathering of five or more issued on Monday intended to crack down on peaceful public protests opposing their takeover. (AP Photo) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) BANGKOK – Businesses are just beginning to reassess their investments in Myanmar a...

Businesses start to rethink Myanmar as coup ignites protests | 2021/02/09

Myanmar coup sparks resistance movement as Suu Kyi is charged Shibani Mahtani, Andrew Nachemson © Stringer/Reuters Medical workers wearing red ribbons pose at Yangon General Hospital on Wednesday during a protest against the coup that ousted Myanmar’s elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. HONG KONG —Lynn Nu, an assistant surgeon at a government hospital in northern Myanmar, did not show up to work on Wednesday. Neither did 36 other assistant surgeons, almost the entire medical staff at the 500-bed facility, leaving one nurse to tend to patients. The “military says the...