Myanmar urges calm after new violence

YANGON: Myanmar’s government called for calm on Wednesday after mobs burned down a Muslim orphanage, a mosque and shops during a new eruption of religious violence in the east of the country.

The situation was “under control” after an overnight curfew was imposed in Lashio town in Shan State, according to police, which said the unrest was triggered by an attack on a local Buddhist woman by a Muslim man.