Monk Pauk Ko Taw, who until now had supported the regime’s strongman, General Min Aung Hlaing, publicly criticised him calling for his deputy to step in his place. Morale among the troops is very low, ...

Pauk Ko Taw's bold criticism from the stage last week appears to have struck a nerve. Afterwards he was detained by soldiers and questioned, but quickly released, suggesting he does have some powerful ...

Last Tuesday, a noisy crowd of several hundred people stood in the small main square of Pyin Oo Lwin, a popular Myanmar hill town, to hear a bespectacled monk make a startling suggestion. Min Aung ...