Bloomberg Pro-democracy protesters in Myanmar appealed directly to Chinese President Xi Jinping to withdraw his government’s support for the country’s powerful military as mass demonstrations swept cities and towns for a fifth straight day. Outside China’s embassy in Yangon on Wednesday, demonstrators pleaded with Xi to help reverse last week’s military coup, while others held signs reading “we are watching ...

Bloomberg Ethiopia is going ahead with plans to close two camps run by the United Nations’ refugee agency in Tigray region, saying one is too close to the Eritrean border and the other is in an inhabitable location. Hitsats and Shimelba camps were heavily damaged in Ethiopia’s conflict in the northern region and the 20,000 refugees that sheltered there fled ...

Bloomberg The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will seek to buy more than 3 trillion rupees ($41 billion) of sovereign bonds in the next fiscal year to support the government’s borrowing plans, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. That will exceed the 3 trillion rupees the RBI is expected to spend for the current year ending March. ...