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Young skateboarders play at Mya Lay Yone Skate Park in Kamayut township, Yangon. (Pushing Myanmar)

Support from across the world has helped local skateboarders survive the pandemic.

Some of the volunteers on the Myeik Archipelago island have overstayed two weeks so far, while the others have overstayed from one to two months. (Photos by Natalie Poole)

The conservationists were restoring coral reef when the coronavirus pandemic halted travel in the region.

This photo taken on February 9, 2020 shows children playing in Karmawlawyi village in Myanmar's Sagaing region, near the border with India. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

The king of the Konyak tribe sleeps in Myanmar, but eats in India—his house, village and people divided by a mountain border which serves as a vulnerable lifeline now severed by a coronavirus lockdown.

The word "kalar" in Myanmar has increasingly become an anti-Muslim slur and a contemptuous term for someone of Indian or South Asian origin. This illustration by Anik Nyein shows a Sikh man being called "kalar."

It went from innocuous to racist, so let’s turn it back.

Factory workers in Yangon's Dagon Seikkan are protesting for paid leave amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Faeez Safedien)

Day labourers, factory workers, and people who eke out a living on the streets are among the most impacted in Yangon during the coronavirus pandemic.

Sut Seng Htoi (right), a Kachin youth activist. (Kachin Youth Movement)

To mark International Women’s Day, Myanmar Mix spoke to five inspirational women who are leading conversations on some of Myanmar’s most critical issues.

  Legal Clinic Myanmar director Hla Hla Yee poses at the Gender Equality Network office in Yangon. (Shwe Paw Mya Tin / AFP)

Officially, rape hardly happens in Myanmar and domestic abuse is non-existent. The reality? Violence against women is so pervasive it is regarded as normal -- and as a result -- woefully underreported, says lawyer and activist Hla Hla Yee.

 This photo taken on February 9, 2020 shows Nok Tan, 75, a tattooed Konyak tribeman, in his house in a village in Sagaing region of Myanmar, wedged in a semi-autonomous zone near the Indian border. (Photos by Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

Ngon Pok remembers his father and grandfather returning triumphantly to his tribal village in Myanmar's far north with a human head—and the agony of the tattoo he was given to celebrate their victory.

Eminem enthusiast ‘Stan’ stands in his Nyaung Shwe restaurant, which is dedicated to the US rapper. (Photos by Jeremy Burns)

“Eminem is the rap god; I'ma be the food god,” says Myanmar's real Slim Shady.

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