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• Myanmar Ministry Orders Monastery to Remove Buddha Statues Designed Using Occult Practices
• Clashes in Myanmar’s Shan State Force Over 700 Villagers to Flee
• UK Imposes Sanctions on Myanmar Military Chief, Deputy for Abuses Against Rohingya, Others
• Myanmar Labor, Farmer Activists Announce Run for Parliament
• The Day a British Benefactor of Myanmar Youth and Education Passed Away

Myanmar Ministry Orders Monastery to Remove Buddha Statues Designed Using Occult Practices Posted: 07 Jul 2020 07:42 AM PDT A Naypyitaw monastery has been told to remove 66 Buddha statues that violate Theravada Buddhism and were apparently made in a bid to boost the wealth of powerful donors.

Clashes in Myanmar’s Shan State Force Over 700 Villagers to Flee Posted: 07 Jul 2020 05:19 AM PDT The Irrawaddy visited hundreds of villagers who fled fighting between Myanmar's military and the Restoration Council of Shan State.

UK Imposes Sanctions on Myanmar Military Chief, Deputy for Abuses Against Rohingya, Others Posted: 07 Jul 2020 04:47 AM PDT The UK has imposed sanctions on Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and Vice Senior General Soe Win for alleged rights abuses against the Rohingya and other groups in Myanmar.

Myanmar Labor, Farmer Activists Announce Run for Parliament Posted: 07 Jul 2020 04:05 AM PDT Labor and farmers' rights advocates say they will run for Union and regional Parliament in 11 constituencies in Yangon.

The Day a British Benefactor of Myanmar Youth and Education Passed Away Posted: 06 Jul 2020 06:30 PM PDT On this day in 1960, John Sydenham Furnivall, a British educator and literary scholar whose career spanned colonial and independent Myanmar, passed away in England.

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