Burmese police detained two journalists working for Turkey’s state broadcaster TRT and their interpreter and driver on Friday for flying a drone near the Parliament compound, amid tension between the two countries over the Rohingya crisis.

The five winners of licences awarded by the Ministry of Information to air their content in a landmark public-private broadcasting partnership, a roster that includes DVB, will sign official agreements with state-owned Myanmar Radio and Television in early October.

Referring specifically to the Arakan crisis, Suu Kyi said, "Read the newspapers and listen to the news on MRTV released by the government."

The government on Tuesday announced the winners of five private broadcasting licences, awarding the quintet digital free-to-air TV channels in a market heretofore dominated by state-run content.

The Ministry of Information says the winners of five new content provider licences granting the recipients digital free-to-air television channels under the state-owned broadcaster MRTV will be announced at the end of this month.

A pregnant foreign woman has been diagnosed with Zika in the first confirmed case of the mosquito-borne virus in Burma, according to state media.