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A Buddhist nun flashes the three-fingered salute as protesters gather outside the Hledan Center in Yangon, Myanmar Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. (AP Photo)

Water fired at crowd as anti-coup protests swell in Myanmar

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In this image from a video taken on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, Win Htein flashes the three fingers protest gesture as a symbol of defiance in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. The 79-year old Win Htein, a senior member from the party of Myanmar’s deposed national leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has become the latest prominent politician to be arrested as the country’s new military government seeks to deal with continuing resistance to its Monday seizure of power. (AP Photo)

Myanmar resistance to coup builds despite army’s pressures

Associated Press

Pedestrians pass by a graffiti reading as &quot;don't want dictatorship&quot; in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2021. Myanmar's new military government has blocked access to Facebook as resistance to Monday's coup surged amid calls for civil disobedience to protest the ousting of the elected civilian government and its leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP Photo)

Myanmar blocks Facebook as resistance grows to coup

Associated Press

Voters wearing protective face masks and shields observe social distancing as they line up outside a polling station Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020, in Yangon, Myanmar. Voting began Sunday morning in Myanmar’s elections, with more than 90 parties competing for seats in the lower and upper houses of the national Parliament. The ruling party of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is heavily favored to be returned to power. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Suu Kyi party set to win Myanmar vote with weak opposition

By AUNG NAING SOE and PYAE SONE WIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 30, 2011, file photo, Australian journalist Ross Dunkley leaves a court after hearing a verdict on his charges in Yangon, Myanmar. A court in Myanmar on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, sentenced Dunkley who was a pioneering publisher in Southeast Asia to 13 years in prison for possession of illegal drugs. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win, File)

Australian ex-publisher gets 13 years on Myanmar drug charge

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In this May 5, 2019, photo, Buddhist monk and anti-Muslim community leader Wirathu is seen during a nationalist rally in Yangon, Myanmar. A court issued Wednesday, May 29, 2019, an arrest warrant for the Buddhist monk famous for his incendiary comments about the country's Muslim minority and criticisms of the government. The warrant issued in Yangon charges Wirathu with sedition for remarks he made on May 5 about the government of Myanmar's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP Photo/Aung Naing Soe)

Myanmar issues arrest warrant for nationalist Buddhist monk

By AUNG NAING SOE - Associated Press

Rescue team gather near a plane of Myanmar National Airline (MNA) after an accident at Mandalay International airport Sunday, May 12, 2019, in Mandalay, Myanmar. All passengers and crew are reported safe and uninjured after a Myanmar National Airlines plane made a scheduled but emergency landing at Mandalay International Airport on only its rear landing wheels after the front landing gear failed to deploy. (Aung Thura via AP)

Myanmar passenger jet lands safely after landing gear fails

By AUNG NAING SOE - Associated Press

A voter casts his ballot at a polling station in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018. Myanmar staged by-elections Saturday in 13 constituencies, a few for the national parliament, the rest at the state or regional levels. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Myanmar by-elections a test for Suu Kyi’s ruling party

By WAI MOE - Associated Press

Reuters journalist Wa Lone, center, talks to journalists as he is escorted by police to leave a court in Yangon, Myanmar Monday, Sept. 3, 2018. The court in Myanmar has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison for illegal possession of official documents, a ruling that comes as international criticism mounts over the military's alleged human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Myanmar court sentences Reuters reporters to 7 years in jail

By Victoria Milko and Aung Naing Soe - Associated Press

The Latest: Missing Myanmar plane had 15 children on board

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Uber chases GrabTaxi in Myanmar, expanding in Southeast Asia

By ESTHER HTUSAN - Associated Press

A Myanmar police officer takes a photo of a Malaysian ship arriving at Thilawa port in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. The "Food Flotilla for Myanmar" carrying 2,300 tons of food and medicine to help members of Myanmar's persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority arrived in Yangon as rights groups accuse the army of mass killings, rapes and other crimes targeting the ethnic group. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

U.S. Navy makes first port of call to Myanmar since World War II

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 2, 2016 photo, people get on a Circle Line train at Yangon Central Railway Station in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar’s commercial capital is fast shedding its sleepy backwater trappings as the city builds new roads, hotels and office buildings. But Yangon’s Circle Line railway is a world apart from the traffic jams and chaos of the city’s streets. (AP Photo/Elaine Kurtenbach)

Railway for Myanmar’s main city slow-paced window into past

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

In this Oct. 1, 2016 photo, cars are driven past an old colonial building in Yangon, Myanmar. The Yangon Heritage Trust says Myanmar’s largest city and commercial capital is facing its “last best chance” to salvage and restore many crumbling colonial treasures. They recently proposed a “heritage strategy” for the city that outlines a vision of how to make the city more liveable, modern and still affordable as property developers crowd in, while preserving its unique landmarks and neglected green spaces. (AP Photo/Elaine Kurtenbach)

Group hopes to preserve heritage of Myanmar’s biggest city

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, with ink still imprinted on the little finger of her left hand after voting yesterday, waves after delivering a speech from a balcony of the NLD headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Nov. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) ** FILE **

Aung San Suu Kyi party wins historic majority in Myanmar polls

By Grant Peck - The Washington Times

A man rides past graffiti congratulating Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in her party's election victory in Mandalay, Myanmar, Wednesday Nov. 11, 2015. Suu Kyi has won her parliamentary seat, official results showed Wednesday, leading a near total sweep by her party that will give the country its first government in decades that isn't under the military's sway. (AP Photo/Hkun Lat)

Myanmar government promises peaceful power transfer

By Vijay Joshi and Esther Htusan - Associated Press

Leader of Myanmar's National League for Democracy party, Aung San Suu Kyi, delivers a speech with party patron Tin Oo from a balcony of her party's headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Nov. 9, 2015. Suu Kyi on Monday hinted that her party will win the country's historic elections, and urged supporters not to provoke their losing rivals. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Aung San Suu Kyi party projects landslide in historic Myanmar vote

By Esther Htusan and Shonal Ganguly - Associated Press

Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses the media at a press conference at her home in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015. On Sunday Myanmar will hold what is being viewed as the country's best chance for a free and credible election in a quarter of a century.(AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar’s historic poll may be moment of destiny for opposition leader

By Grant Peck and Jerry Harmer - Associated Press

TRAVEL MYANMAR: Travel upriver in Myanmar, ‘land that time forgot’

By Maxine Albert