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Myanmar coup: Celebrities opposing military junta added to arrest list CNN 2/18/2021 © Paing Phyo Thu Myanmar actress Paing Phyo Thu at a protest in Yangon. Since "day one" of the military coup, Burmese actress Paing Phyo Thu -- one of the country's highest-paid stars -- says she has been on the streets opposing the ruling junta. One of Myamar's highest-paid actresses, she has been offering financial help to striking staff who have given up their jobs to take part in the growing civil disobedience movement, known as CDM. But on Thursday, the Myanmar Academy Award winner and her director...

Myanmar Anti-Coup Protesters Defy Ban, Take to Streets for Fifth Day Anti-coup protesters in Yangon on Wednesday / The Irrawaddy 5.0k By The Irrawaddy 10 February 2021 YANGON—Throngs of anti-coup protesters again poured onto the streets across Myanmar on Wednesday, undeterred by the military regime’s assembly ban and speculation that more crackdowns were imminent after a number of incidents on Tuesday in which riot police violently confronted demonstrators. In the country’s capital Naypyitaw, where protesters were gunned down with live and rubber bullets a day earlier, nearly 500 gove...

Banks reopened in Yangon on February 2 after closing the day before. Credit: IPS / Yangon stringer YANGON, Myanmar, Feb 3 2021 (IPS) - As night fell on Tuesday, the second day of the military coup in Myanmar, two familiar scenes were being played out on opposite sides of the world. In New York the international community, in the form of the UN Security Council meeting through video link-up, was failing yet again to agree on a meaningful and united response to events dictated by the Myanmar military. And in the capital Nay Pyi Taw, Aung San Suu Kyi was once more under house arrest along with ...