On September 2, 2022, the United Kingdom’s former ambassador to Myanmar Vicky Bowman, and her husband Htein Lin, prominent artist and former political prisoner, have each been sentenced to one y...
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Myanmar’s Military Junta Executes Three Pro-Democracy Activists And Former Lawmaker
Topline Myanmar’s government on Monday announced the executions of four pro-democracy activists—including a former lawmaker—claiming they engaged in terrorist activities and carried out killings, a mo...
Myanmar Junta Plans To Kickstart Its Own Digital Currency – Bane Or Boon?
Tether became an official currency in Myanmar’s shadow government in the middle of December of last year. The country’s ruling junta proposed a cryptocurrency ban as a way to combat this. Even though ...
Myanmar Junta Wants Own Digital Currency After Government in Exile Pushes Tether
A military government is proposing creating its own digital currency a year after overthrowing the democratically elected leader. What could go wrong? Major General Zaw Min Tun, deputy information mi...
One Year Of The Military Junta In Power In Myanmar
On February 1, 2021, the Burmese military stages a coup and took over Myanmar. What followed can only be described as brutal crackdown to suppress opposition to its rule, including mass killings, tort...
Myanmar junta crackdown on cryptocurrencies
TL;DR Breakdown Myanmar junta places ban on cryptocurrencies. Violators of ban to face 6 months to1 year prison sentence. Myanmar locals against ban on cryptocurrencies. The Myanmar military junta has...
Myanmar’s Military Junta Imposes Crypto Ban; Penalty of Up to One Year Imprisonment
The military junta in Myanmar has recently drafted a bill that seeks to ban the use of digital currencies and virtual private networks (VPNs) in the Southeast Asian country. The bill, which has alread...