Protesting envoys in Japan sacked

Show of defiance: A Buddhist monk taking part in a protest against the military coup with others in the northwestern town of Kale. — AFP

TWO officials at the Myanmar embassy in Tokyo have become the latest diplomats dismissed by the junta after protesting against the military coup in their country, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported.

Administrator Aung Soe Moe and a junior colleague were fired after they went on strike, the agency said yesterday.