Critics say pausing dividends to the pipeline firm, a joint venture with regime-controlled MOGE, doesn’t go far enough, as the junta still earns money from gas projects.
Number of child fatalities certain to rise as National Unity Government says that their list doesn’t include recent deaths.
Local residents forced to flee as clashes continue between civilian resistance fighters and junta forces in Kayah State.
Fighting has been reported to the east of the Chindwin River in Kani Township for the first time.
Many of the staff who joined the civil disobedience movement have already returned to work and the ministry is operating normally.
The incidents in Dawei come as anti-regime protesters call for an education boycott ahead of schools reopening on June 1.
Four people were killed as multiple blasts hit Yangon; an electricity office in Ayeyarwady was bombed; a school burned down in Tanintharyi; protests continued nationwide.
The appeal follows the Myanmar military’s shelling of a church in Kayah State, which killed four displaced villagers who were sheltering there.
Friends believe that activist Ko Mae Gyi was tortured to death because of his strong opposition to the military regime.
Troops stole money, food and liquor, pouring petrol on the ground so residents would not have access to fuel.
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