Burma’s electricity woes harm medicines, risk lives
Due to constant power failures across Burma, medicines that need to be kept at specifically refrigerated temperatures, such as cancer medication and insulin, are becoming damaged and putting patients’ lives at risk.
Power cuts force factories to close
Factories in Rangoon’s industrial zone are closing because of government imposed power cuts to combat widespread electricity shortages.
Police assault teenagers at demonstration in Thonse
Teenage protestors in Pegu division’s Thonse township were allegedly beaten by local police officers, while they were participating in a candlelight vigil
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Protests over power cuts spread across country
Mass demonstrations against electrical cuts that began in Mandalay on Sunday are spreading across Burma to Rangoon, Prome and Monywa
Power cuts increase in elections’ wake
While power cuts have been rare during the last year, large cities across the country are being subjected to numerous cuts during the height of the summer
