Junta Issues Dress Code for Myanmar Entertainers
<i> Associated Press</i>
YANGON, Myanmar —
Entertainers are barred from wearing tight or ragged jeans, skirts with slits and shaggy hair under a new dress code set out by the military junta to stamp out “alien culture.”
Lt. Gen. Myo Nyunt, a member of the ruling junta, lashed out at entertainers for wearing “decadent” outfits that he said were incompatible with Burmese culture, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported Saturday.
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