Junta No.2 Turns Solar Salesman After Military Eclipse; Scam Crackdown on Karen Allies; and More

After a year of humiliating and unprecedented defeats for the military he leads, Soe Win, the Myanmar junta’s second-in-command, appears to have found his true calling – as a solar panel salesman.

The vice senior general’s enthusiastic promotion of photovoltaic panels in recent weeks has even earned him a nickname: “Solar Soe Win.”

On Feb. 5, during a meeting to organize the Union-level MSME Product Exhibition and Contest, he fervently urged business owners to adopt solar to ensure an uninterrupted power supply.