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Pandemic stops the presses

Yangon’s news media has risen on the list of COVID-19’s economic victims. A recent blanket stay-at-home order for Yangon Region has forced printing presses to close their doors and most private newspapers and magazines to suspend their pr

Military drops charges against journalists

The Myanmar Army (Tatmadaw) will no longer pursue controversial defamation charges against international news agency Reuters and the Irrawaddy News. The Myanmar Press Council announced that the military has abandoned its plan to sue Reuters and an Ir

Terminals, ports, logistics, liner operations disrupted
February 26, 2021
German containerline Hapag Lloyd has announced a decision to temporarily suspend cargo bookings into Myanmar …
Facebook, Instagram ban military and related pages with immediate effect
February 26, 2021
In a February 24th update to its February 11th statement, Facebook through its Director of …
Luxury Japanese real-estate complex called out for funding military
February 26, 2021
Despite distancing itself from other major Western states imposing sanctions on military-linked individuals and entities, …