What's happening in Myanmar, six months after the coup?

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Myanmar has endured six months of turmoil since the military deposed Aung San Suu Kyi's government and ended the country's decade-old experiment with democracy.

The junta has consolidated its position after a lethal crackdown on street protests, which have continued in a limited form despite the violence.The military has killed almost 1,000 people in a running crackdown on dissent, a local monitoring group says, with thousands more arrested.

"The country has fallen into chaos and is close to complete collapse," Manny Maung of Human Rights Watch told AFP.Yes, but in nothing like the numbers seen in February and March, when hundreds of thousands took to the streets around the country. Fighters from the Karen National Union -- which has offered shelter to fleeing dissidents -- attacked and razed a military base in May.The junta hit back at both with air strikes.

 

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Being cancer-stricken and begging CPF Board to repay overdue debt; that which in any case cannot be done as the money had been commingled and funneled to private entity Temasek Holdings for Ho Ching to wager on unviable, untenable and ultimately, invariably doomed gambles

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