One week since they went missing, two Reuters reporters detained by Burmese authorities are being treated well and in good health, according to a senior government spokesman, who nonetheless declined to provide information on where the two men are being held.

Coal would be one of the quickest ways to ramp up power generation, but the option is unpopular in Burma.

Three journalists arrested in Shan State are likely to be handed over to police “soon,” a senior government official says, as questions mount as to why the men were detained and pressure grows on the military to reveal their whereabouts nearly 48 hours after they were taken into custody.

A court in Rangoon denied bail to the The Voice Daily’s editor-in-chief and a satire columnist for the newspaper on Thursday, with the judge ruling that the defendants’ legal counsel had failed to provide the necessary medical documents to secure their release from police custody.

UEC throws out USDP claim that Suu Kyi and other party leaders used state media to campaign during by-election.

The President’s Office has rejected rumours that President Htin Kyaw had submitted his resignation due to poor health.