SINGAPORE( Reuters)-Senior foreign executives of major telecommunications firms in Myanmar have been told by the junta that they must not leave the country without permission, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.... A week later, telecom companies were sent a second letter telling them they had until Monday July 5 to fully implement intercept technology they had previously been asked to install to let authorities spy on calls, messages and web traffic and to track users by themsel

Other local firms are also interested, two of the sources said, though Reuters was unable to establish which companies. Telenor said in a statement to Reuters it was waiting for a formal response from Myanmar authorities to its request to sell its unit to M1 and declined further comment.... A spokesperson for M1 declined to comment.A person who answered the phone at Shwe Byain Phyu declined to answer questions or pass on enquiries.... International and local monitoring groups said there were n