People light candles and pray for electricity during a protest against the shortage of electricity at Sule Pagoda in central Yangon. People staged a peaceful protest at the heart of the commercial city of Yangon against power blackouts across the country. - Reuters
YANGON (Reuters): Myanmar's electricity generation has dropped to about half the normal figure, as rebels have damaged critical transmission networks, causing lengthy blackouts in wide swathes of the South Asian nation, state media said on Friday.
Natural gas shortages in the war-torn nation have also helped take production down to just 2,200 MW a day, from the usual figure of 4,000 megawatt (MW), they added.
