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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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