Three extra holidays have also been added to create a weeklong public holiday; nonessential travel banned; only shops selling medicine and other necessities can open.
Ari Ben-Menashe said he would suspend his efforts to re-brand the military regime as international sanctions prevented him from being paid for his work.
Local civil society organizations have accused the military regime of not cooperating with them to help stem the spike in coronavirus cases.
With the public refusing to pay bills and thousands of energy workers on strike or fired, the junta is unable to meet the country’s power needs, a group of experts...
The possibility appears remote, however, given that the regional bloc has yet to even agree on the appointment of a Special Envoy to Myanmar.
ARSA, which the Myanmar military says is responsible for attacks in Rakhine State, has been tied to both the Pakistani intelligence service and radical Muslim terror groups.
Amid multiplying COVID-19 cases, oxygen is increasingly scarce for those infected.
Ma Theint Sandi Soe and Daw Kyi Kyi Khaing were only detained when the security forces in Mandalay Region failed to find activist U Soe Htay.
The regime’s spokesperson admitted also that the junta is unable to guarantee the security of military-appointed administrators.
The major who led the raid on the detained State Counselor’s Naypyitaw residence testified at her trial that there were no security guards at the house.
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