Activists opposed to Myanmar’s junta called on Monday for people to stop paying electricity bills and agricultural loans, and keep their children away from school, scorning the top general’s pledge at a regional summit to end the post-coup crisis.

Scattered protests took place in Myanmar’s big cities on Sunday, a day after Sen Gen Min Aung Hlaing reached an agreement, at a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in Indonesia...

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