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Myanmar’s parallel civilian government and rights groups on Tuesday called on Total and other oil firms operating in the country to suspend payments to the military-controlled state following last month’s coup.

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Pandaw, a luxury river cruise operator, has nailed its colours to the mast by providing medical aid to injured demonstrators in towns across central Myanmar.

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Total faced calls from rights groups on Tuesday to suspend payments on operations in Myanmar following a coup, after the oil group said it was worried about the situation while also highlighting the importance of its business there.

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Total faced calls from rights groups on Tuesday to suspend payments on operations in Myanmar following a coup, after the oil group said it was worried about the situation while also highlighting the importance of its business there.

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The throttling of internet freedoms in the wake of Myanmar's coup is the latest in a distinct trend toward digital authoritarianism in Southeast Asia. Attacks on the internet are rising, including countrywide shutdowns and targeting of conflict zones.

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Fashion giants with suppliers in Myanmar, face an ethical quandary about how they maintain supply lines with garment factories while a junta uses deadly force to suppress daily demonstrations and work stoppages after the military unconstitutionally assumed power on 1 February.

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For many Burmese it has brought new meaning to the term “night terrors”. Online the hashtag #nightdragging is used by many residents among Myanmar’s towns and cities to help band together and co-ordinate warnings and resistance to the night-time raids by security forces looking for daytime protesters.

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Last June, when the Hong Kong Trade Development Council spotlighted business opportunities in Myanmar in an article on its website, there was no shortage of Hong Kong businesses on hand to express their bullish sentiment.

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Myanmar’s first satellite is being held on board the International Space Station following the Myanmar coup, while Japan’s space agency and a Japanese university decide what to do with it, two Japanese university officials said.

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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ စစ်တပ်ကအာဏာသိမ်းခဲ့တဲ့နောက်မှာ မြန်မာ့ ပထမဆုံးဂြိုဟ်တုကို ကမ္ဘာ့မြေပြင်အထက် မိုင် ၂၅၀ ကျော်မှာ ရှိတဲ့ ISS နိုင်ငံတကာအာကာသ စခန်းမှာ အသုံးမပြုသေးပဲ ယာယီသိမ်းထားဖို့ ဂျပန်အာကာသအေဂျင်စီ နဲ့ ဂျပန်တက္ကသိုလ်တို့က ဆုံးဖြတ်ခဲ့ကြောင်း ဂျပန်တက္ကသိုလ် တာဝန်ခံအရာရှိ တွေက ပြောပါတယ်။

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