A boycott campaign that has sent sales of military-owned beers plummeting has created shortages of rival products, with breweries unable to meet demand and facing a shortage of cans.
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A boycott campaign that has sent sales of military-owned beers plummeting has created shortages of rival products, with breweries unable to meet demand and facing a shortage of cans.
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Pro-military Facebook accounts are seeking to drive a wedge between ethnic armed groups and civilian resistance with disinformation, but are struggling to break the unity of the anti-coup opposition.
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Security forces are increasingly arresting the family members of activists who are on the run – effectively holding them hostage without charge.
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A senior official at Insein Prison said 360 men and 268 women were released from the Yangon facility on Wednesday, the same day a "silent strike" against military rule closed down shops and quieted the streets of cities across the country.
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The girl – the twentieth child to die at the hands of the military since it took power on February 1, according to local monitoring
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A Tatmadaw spokesperson said he's "sad" over the deaths of pro-democracy protesters slain by his military, but also called them "terrorist people", as more nations pile on sanctions over what the UN said may constitute "crimes against humanity".
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Despite ever-growing violence from police and soldiers, an alliance of monks, youth and workers continues to gather each day to demand democracy while keeping its members largely safe.
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Bankers say they are facing threats of nationalisation or forced reopening as the military regime grapples with an industry-wide strike, but a lack of physical cash also looms as a potential crisis point.
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It was the latest of three fires to hit the cramped and squalid camps in the last four days, sending some 20,000 fleeing, officials said.
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The $1.5 billion hydropower dam, the Shan State-based Shweli-3 project, was a 671-megawatt project in Shan State that was still in its early stages of development.
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Residents say life has become too terrifying to stay in Yangon, where martial law has been declared over six townships and police and soldiers have begun pulling people from their homes and forcing them to clear roads at gunpoint.
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Despite a bloody crackdown in the Yangon factory suburb and a max exodus of migrant workers, residents say they will continue their protests until the military is overthrown.
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