Myanmar

Fighters from the Karenni National Defence Force, a network of civilian resistance fighters, Karenni organisations and armed groups in Kayah State. (KNDF / Kantarawaddy Times)

Acting president of the National Unity Government (NUG), Duwa Lashi La, called for revolt in “every corner of the country” against the regime.

People digging for gold at the road widening project. (Thaung Khaing)

The prospectors were soon stopped from striking lucky by local government officials.

Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun were found guilty of the killings in Thailand. (AFP)

Two Myanmar migrant workers on death row for the brutal murder of a pair of British backpackers in Thailand have had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment following a mass royal pardon.

Myanmar's Union Election Commission (UEC) headquarters in the capital Naypyidaw. The banning of Myanmar's largest election monitoring group, the People's Alliance for Credible Elections (PACE), by the Union Election Commission will have a "huge impact" on the transparency of November's national polls, the organisation's director said on August 14, 2020. (Romeo Gacad / AFP)

The banning of Myanmar's largest election monitoring group will have a "huge impact" on the transparency of November's national polls, the organisation's director said Friday.

 Rohingya candidate Abdul Rasheed, a member of the Democracy and Human Rights Party works in the party's office in Yangon on August 12, 2020. (Sai Aung Main / AFP)

A Rohingya Muslim has been barred from standing in Myanmar's upcoming election, in a decision decried by rights groups as discriminatory and a symptom of the "ongoing genocide" against the persecuted minority.

Relatives and family members look at the body of Khaing Zaw Tun, who had been held at a juvenile centre, at the Mandalay general hospital. (AFP)

Authorities said Sunday they would investigate the deaths of two teenagers at a Myanmar juvenile centre after the family of one victim alleged abuse, in a scandal plaguing the country's notorious detention system.

Canadian Christian pastor David Lah wears a mask and face shield as he is escorted by police at Mayangone Township Court in Yangon on May 20, 2020, as he faced charges over allegedly organizing religious gatherings despite a ban on mass events to halt the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. (STR / AFP)

A Canadian preacher who claimed Christians were safe from coronavirus was on Thursday jailed for three months in Myanmar after he and dozens of his followers became infected when he held a banned service.

A still from the music video Our Land (A United Myanmar) by director Yone Lay.

The 14-minute clip features a slew of Myanmar celebrities and an imagined attempted assassination of Aung San Suu Kyi. 

(Left) The photo uploaded to the now deactivated Facebook account named Zun Ko Tun. (Right) Irrawaddy dolphins swimming in Myanmar. (Wildlife Conservation Society Myanmar)

Disturbing images on social media are not lacking in Myanmar, but one in particular this week has incensed people.

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