The Myanmar Times - Weekend - 2020-08-28

• Food shortage feared in Rakhine
• Farm, labour candidates to outline poll priorities
• Yangon to expand quarantine facilities
• Voting ‘keeps our soul as a nation’
• Japan grants $1.69M in aid for indelible ink
• State Counsellor accused of violating anti-virus rules
• What do you say to someone who refuses to wear a mask?
• Rakhine outbreak tests govt strategy
• Myanmar to legalise illicit stockpiles of foreign alcohol to raise revenues
• Work on S Korean-backed industrial complex set to begin in December
• Powell edges toward loosening the Fed’s stance on inflation
• Global stocks lower ahead of US Fed chair’s speech
• Facebook: Apple privacy changes will muck up online ads
• Google location-tracking tactics troubled its own engineers
• Tiktok CEO resigns amid US pressure to sell video app
• ‘Our hands are tied’: Local aid workers exposed in pandemic
• Europe is going back to school despite recent virus surge
• Don’t panic, French prime minister says, as infections mount
• Turkey, Greece stick to their guns in escalating Med dispute
• Typhoon damages buildings, floods roads on Korean Peninsula
• US moves against Chinese officials over South China Sea
• China launches ‘carrier killer’ in disputed South China Sea
• Thai headmaster sentenced to death for killing 3
• China criticises US sanctions over S China Sea build-up
• Unce ainty shrouds Tour de France racing against COVID-19
• Osaka withdraws in protest; W&S matches put on hold
• Bo as has to bounce back in Belgium as F1 title hopes fade
• No CL glory: PSG’S focus on expensive strikers proves costly
• Celtic, Legia, Cluj lose Champions League qualifiers at home
• Debt, addictions and family stress during
• Motorbikes for Yangon
• An ode to mud and soggy shoes in an off-road Yangon motorbike adventure
• Of Snakes and Pottery: Along the Twante Canal

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