Myanmar health and information ministers step down


  • World
  • Wednesday, 30 Jul 2014

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's ministers of information and health have resigned, state media reported on Wednesday, the latest changes in a cabinet that has been grappling with a host of problems as the country presses on with reforms after decades of military rule.

The New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported that President Thein Sein had "allowed" Information Minister Aung Kyi and Health Minister Pe Thet Khin to step down "of their own volition".

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