In THe NEws

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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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 say.

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နိုင်ငံတဝန်းမှာ စစ်အာဏာရှင်ဆန့်ကျင်ရေး ဆန္ဒပြပွဲတွေကို စစ်တပ်နဲ့ ရဲက အကြမ်းဖက် ဖြိုခွဲတာ၊ ဆန္ဒပြပြည်သူတွေကို ဖမ်းဆီး နှိပ်စက် သတ်ဖြတ်တာတွေကြောင့် စစ်တပ်ပိုင်စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းတွေကို ပြည်ပနိုင်ငံတွေက ဒဏ်ခတ်အရေးယူနေသလို ပြည်တွင်းမှာလည်း စစ်တပ်ထုတ်ကုန်ပစ္စည်းတွေကို သပိတ်မှောက်တဲ့ လှုပ်ရှားမှုတွေ အရှိန်မြင့်လာနေပါတယ်။

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Following a cyberattack on the Myanmar Investment Commission website leading to the release of thousands of confidential documents on the whistleblowing website Distributed Denial of Secrets, the illegitimate military-controlled Myanmar Government is planning to shut down MyCo.

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On a busy street in Yangon, police are escorting a man as gunfire crackles in the background. The man appears to be in custody and is showing no resistance - then suddenly an officer shoots him from behind, kicking him as he lies on the ground.

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