5 Feb 2021

Asia correspondent Ed White

From Nine To Noon, 9:52 am on 5 February 2021

Ed has the latest on the coup in Myanmar which has shocked the world this week, threatening to abruptly end the south-east Asian country's shaky experiment in democracy over the past ten years and risking a longer-term regression to military rule. 

Myanmar migrants hold up portraits of Aung San Suu Kyi as they demonstrae  outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok on 1 February 2021, over the military coup in Myanmar.

Photo: AFP

Ed White is a correspondent for the Financial Times, based in Seoul.