Myanmar's finance minister resigns - president


  • World
  • Saturday, 26 May 2018

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's Finance Minister Kyaw Win has resigned, President Win Myint said on Friday, weeks after local media first reported he was under investigation for alleged corruption.

Kyaw Win was "allowed to resign," the president said in a short statement posted on the presidency's official Facebook page late on Friday. The presidential office did not give a reason for the resignation in its statement.

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