Six persons were killed and three others injured in terrorist attacks in Mandalay Region last Friday, according to the Myanmar Police Force.
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The orders by the Ministry of Transport and Communications came as a civil disobedience campaign has gained momentum since Monday’s coup.
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Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday after spending over 500 days behind bars.
A Myanmar judge on Monday found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and jailed them for seven years, in a landmark case seen as a test of progress towards democracy in the Southeast Asian country.
The Treasury said the moves should “serve as a warning that the security forces must cease such behaviour immediately, respect and protect the human rights of all ethnic and religious groups in Burma’’.
Facebook has been “too slow’’ to address hate speech in Myanmar and is acting to remedy the problem by hiring more Burmese speakers and investing in technology to identify problematic content, the company said.
The pope visited Myanmar in November 2017 and later, in neighbouring Bangladesh, had an emotional meeting with Rohingya refugees who had fled there from Rakhine state.
The pope will also visit Bangladesh, where more than 620,000 Rohingya have fled to escape what Amnesty International has dubbed “crimes against humanity”.
Hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya have fled Myanmar following a military crackdown that the UN has described as ethnic cleansing.