Author: Desk Team

Missing up to 10 players who are boycotting the World Cup qualifier against Japan on Friday has ratcheted up the degree of difficulty for Myanmar against Asia’s top-ranked team. Experienced stars such as defender Zaw Min Tun, striker Kyaw Ko Ko and goalkeeper Kyaw Zin Htet are among the players who are refusing to participate in international matches for Myanmar in protest at February’s military coup. The struggle to assemble a team to face Japan, then Kyrgyzstan on June 11 and Tajikistan on June 15, meant that the national squad had to delay its departure to Tokyo from May 14 to 21. “In these challenging days there are more important issues than football,” Myanmar coach Antoine Hey told the Associated Press. Hey, a German, said while he accepted the feelings of the players who have ma

RCMP unexpectedly arrested a number of old-growth activists with the Fairy Creek blockades inside the control zone near the Caycuse Camp early Thursday morning. Meanwhile, downtown Victoria was plagued by stalled traffic, placards and orange smoke plumes as a large demonstration to support blockaders and protect ancient forests broke out later the same morning. Details of arrests are still emerging from the remote camp out of cell range in the Caycuse watershed on southwest Vancouver Island. However, RCMP confirmed the arrests of seven people at the Caycuse Camp in a statement Thursday afternoon. Six people were detained for breaching the injunction and one was removed from the area with no recommended charges, RCMP said. But RCMP are also seeking charges of obstruction for two arrest...