Thomas Vajda, the Trump administration’s nominee as the next US envoy to Myanmar, told the Senate he would work to counter ‘malign foreign influences’ in the country.

Citing the huge investment cost, the Myanmar government has broken up the New Yangon City project and will recruit an international consultant to help select a developer.

The army’s refusal to discuss the details of its prosecution of three military personnel over the massacre of 19 Rohingya has been criticized as a failure of justice.