{"id":25445,"date":"2018-03-21T11:40:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T11:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=25445"},"modified":"2018-03-21T11:40:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T11:40:59","slug":"myanmars-president-kyaw-resigns-to-take-rest-from-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/myanmars-president-kyaw-resigns-to-take-rest-from-duties\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar\u2019s President Kyaw resigns \u2018to take rest from duties\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yangon,<br \/>\nMyanmar\u2019s civilian President, Htin Kyaw, has resigned with immediate effect \u201cin order to take rest from the current duties and responsibilities\u201d, his office said in a statement posted on Facebook on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Htin Kyaw, whose post is largely ceremonial, has been a close ally of the country\u2019s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.<\/p>\n<p>He was handpicked by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate to become president because a constitution drafted by the country\u2019s former junta bars her from the top office.<\/p>\n<p>There has been speculation in the local media for some months that Htin Kyaw was in ill-health, but this was denied by officials.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s office said: \u201cAccording to the Myanmar constitution article 73 (b), procedures will be undertaken to fill the President vacancy within seven working days.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yangon, Myanmar\u2019s civilian President, Htin Kyaw, has resigned with immediate effect \u201cin order to take rest from the current duties and responsibilities\u201d, his office said in a statement posted on Facebook on Wednesday. Htin Kyaw, whose post is largely ceremonial, has been a close ally of the country\u2019s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25447,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25445\/revisions\/25447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}