Quick Glance: Decline of Myanmar Football on and off the Field
- Under decades of military rule, Myanmar football experienced a decline from its glorious days in the 1960s.
- The modest progress made during the transition years was dramatically reversed by the pandemic and the coup.
- The economic crisis caused by the 2021 coup has further devastated the Myanmar league.
- The national team achieved success at the Asian Games and qualified for the Olympics.
Quick Glance: The Myanmar junta has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to another six years in prison for corruption.
- Suu Kyi "was sentenced to three years imprisonment each for two corruption cases" in which she was accused of accepting payments from a businessman, according to the source, who added that the terms would be served concurrently.
- In the most recent allegation, the Nobel laureate, who has been held in military captivity since the night of the coup, was accused of accepting $550,000 in bribes from businessman Maung Weik.
- She is currently on trial for five further counts of corruption.
- A military television showed a video last year of Maung Weik alleging he had provided Suu Kyi $550,000 over several years.
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