The military junta has tried to silence dissent by temporarily blocking Facebook and extending a social media crackdown to Twitter and Instagram on Saturday in the face of the growing protest movement.
As a pharmacist,the Rohingya man works to treat COVID patients in hospital. His wife-to-be,however,is trapped in Cox’s Bazar after fleeing Myanmar and faces deportation to a remote tsunami and flood-prone island.
The UN Security Council has called for the release of Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others detained by the military during a coup on Monday.
Ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been accused of illegally importing communications equipment and will be detained until February 15,Myanmar police say.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s whereabouts remained unknown more than 24 hours after her arrest in a military coup.
Australia has spent almost $1.5 million on Myanmar’s military over the past five years including English lessons,training courses and joint exercises.
At the centre of the coup in Myanmar are the presidential ambitions of the Commander in Chief,Min Aung Hlaing.
Days after Donald Trump started making unsubstantiated claims of election fraud in early November,Myanmar’s military began doing the same.
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the ruling party have been detained in an early morning raid,amid escalating tension between the civilian government and the military.
It's called on authorities to hold another contest"in order to have an election that is free,fair,unbiased and free from unfair campaigning".
There were no reliable official figures available on voter turnout,and the country's election commission earlier said that it might take as long as a week to release full results.