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Myanmar’s parliament elected military chief Min Aung Hlaing as president, five years after his 2021 coup ousted Aung San Suu Kyi. The election, dominated by army-backed lawmakers, is seen as a move to maintain military control despite nominally restoring an elected government

Myanmar’s military-appointed election commission has scheduled polls for December 28, in a vote critics call a sham to legitimise the army’s 2021 coup.

Suu Kyi, 78, who was arrested in February 2021 when the army seized power from her elected government, fell ill late last month

The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders said in April that Myanmar is the world's second- biggest jailer of journalists, behind only China.

Myanmar's Supreme Court has declined to hear special appeals from the country's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi against her convictions in five cases.

IIMM said it found strong evidence during the 12 months ending in June that the army and militias indiscriminately and disproportionately targeted civilians with bombs, mass executions of people detained during operations and large-scale burning of civilian houses

Myanmar military announced clemency for imprisoned civilian leaders State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint, who have been incarcerated since the February 2021 coup

The state of emergency was declared when troops arrested Aung San Suu Kyi and top officials from her government and members of her National League for Democracy party on February 1, 2021. The takeover reversed years of progress toward democracy after five decades of military rule.

Media reports said Suu Kyi had been transferred to a residence for deputy ministers in the capital on July 24

Central Bank of army-ruled Myanmar will issue a higher denomination note of 20,000 kyats (about $9.50)

It is ‘constructive disengagement’ that the people of Myanmar are asking for in their struggle to restore their fledgling democracy

The army's seizure of power halted the Southeast Asian nation's move toward democracy that began when Suu Kyi's party took office in 2016 for its first term, after more than five decades of military rule.

Witnesses outside Insein Prison in Yangon on Wednesday saw busloads of mostly young people, looking happy with some flashing the three-finger gesture of defiance.

No privately owned newspapers were published this past week for the first time in eight years, following bans and voluntary suspensions.

There were also reports of injuries from live rounds and rubber bullets.

Myanmar has been roiled by protests, strikes and other acts of civil disobedience since the coup toppled Suu Kyi's government on February 1 just as it was to start its second term.

An internationally isolated Myanmar can put a spoke in the central idea of China’s Belt and Road Initiative – connectivity

Bagan is best known for being one of the country's top tourist attractions, but it has also been the scene of large protest marches against the military's February 1 seizure of power.

Thein Zaw was arrested on Feb 27 while covering a protest against the military coup that ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, said 38 people were killed on Wednesday, a figure consistent with other reports.