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Loudspeakers:religious freedom or noise pollution? (Yangon)

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With Pyay becoming the first town in Myanmar to ban loudspeakers outdoors for broadcast of religious sermons and street sellers, and the high profile recent case of a young Dutch tourist arrested for disconnecting the speakers broadcasting a Buddhist sermon outside his hostel at 10pm last Friday, and a raging debate overwhelmingly in favour of 'banning the speaker' on Facebook, is it time to ask the question: Religious tradition, or noise pollution?

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