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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

Australia announced late Sunday it had suspended a defense training program with Myanmar worth about 1.5 million Australian dollars ($1.2 million) over five years.

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.

The Rohingyas are a Bengali-dialect speaking Muslim minority in Myanmar.

The India-Myanmar border has a Free Movement Regime (FMR) which allows tribes living along the border to travel 16 km across either side without visa restrictions.

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 video-streaming platform told the New York Times it removed the channels for breaking its community guidelines but it didn't explain the decision any further.

The decision follows a February 1 military coup that ousted the country's elected government, provoking massive public protests.

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

Hundreds, many wearing construction helmets and carrying makeshift shields, gathered in Myanmar's largest city of Yangon, where a day earlier police had fired repeated rounds of tear gas

In Myanmar on Sunday, a crackdown on protesters by security forces left at least 18 people dead, according to the U.N. Human Rights Office.

On February 1, Myanmar's military overthrew the government and declared a year-long state of emergency hours before the newly-elected parliament was due to convene.

On Monday, the U.S. said it was imposing sanctions against more junta members because of the killings of peaceful protesters by security forces.

NetBlocks also informed that internet services in the country had been blacked out for the past six days.

State railway workers on Sunday had called a strike, joining a loosely organised Civil Disobedience Movement that was initiated by medical workers and is the backbone of the resistance.

The February 1 coup has brought an abrupt halt to Myanmar's fragile progress toward democracy, as Suu Kyi's party was about to begin a second five-year term.

Suu Kyi, who was ousted in a military coup on February 1, has already been charged with possessing walkie-talkies that were imported without being registered.

The Nobel laureate remains under house arrest on a minor charge of possessing unregistered imported walkie-talkies.

Large demonstrations were also held in Naypyitaw and far-flung corners of the country dominated by ethnic minorities.