MANDALAY, Myanmar (AP) - A Myanmar court sentenced a Dutch citizen to three months in prison Thursday for interfering with a religious observance by unplugging an amplifier blasting a late-night ...
A Myanmar monk infamous for his bilious anti-Muslim tirades has been banned from giving sermons for a year by the country's top Buddhist body, an unprecedented slapdown to a man whose hate speech has ...
YANGON, July 22 (Reuters) – An explosion in a car parked metres away from a radical Buddhist monk wounded four people at a mass sermon in northern Myanmar, police said on Monday.
A Dutch tourist has been sentenced to three months in prison in Myanmar, but not for theft, assault or any other serious crime. According to the Associated Press, 30-year-old Klaas Haytema received ...
Religious leaders in Myanmar agree with a ban that stops an anti-Muslim monk giving sermons but they say that more needs to be done to address hate speech in the country. Government-backed monks from ...
A Myanmar court has sentenced a Dutch tourist to three months in prison and a fine after he unplugged a public address system that was relaying a Buddhist sermon, his lawyer said. Klaas Haytema, 30, ...
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