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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 she was being held at her residence in Naypyidaw, the country’s capital, and was “in good health�...

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.