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Support from across the world has helped local skateboarders survive the pandemic.
Many of the park's deer started venturing dangerously close to villages outside Shwe Settaw nature reserve in Magway region, putting themselves at risk of poaching, rangers say.
In addition to the illegal harvesting of mangrove wood for charcoal and firewood, and clearing of mangrove forests for rice paddy fields, the development of aquaculture is yet another big driver of mangrove deforestation in Myanmar.
It has a standing army of 25,000, manufactures its own guns and conscripts at least one member of each household—meet the United Wa State Army: Communist, reclusive, China-backed rebels determined to protect their supremacy over Myanmar's badland border zone.
A Shan man living on Myanmar's largest lake makes a potent alcohol made with "the food of tigers."
For a pair of siblings in Bago region, the year so far has been all about making sewing bags and floral buttons.
Swathes of Shan state—like many of the country's restive borderlands—have been embroiled in conflict for decades.
This week a production of Eve Ensler’s famed feminist play opens in Yangon and includes two showings in the local language.