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.

Karen ethnic people hold posters and shout slogans during a protest against Myanmar Army for the allegedly arbitrary killings, raping, shelling and for the removal of the army camps, at Hpapun township in Karen state on July 28, 2020. (STR / AFP)

Several thousand protesters marched in southeast Myanmar on Tuesday to demand the military's withdrawal from the area and an end to rights abuses after soldiers allegedly killed an unarmed woman from the Karen ethnic group.

This photo taken on June 19, 2020 shows engineer Thu Thu Aung, 40, posing for a photo at the Myanmar Aerospace Engineering University in Meiktila. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

Myanmar is preparing to launch its first-ever satellite, joining an unlikely coalition of nascent space nations aiming to protect millions from environmental disasters.

The baby was reportedly found alive in the mortuary of Naypyidaw General Hospital but died four days later. (Supplied)

A baby who was declared dead in Naypyidaw General Hospital was later found to be alive after a free funeral service volunteer discovered her wrapped in a plastic bag in a mortuary.

Myanmar police stand near a police van outside court. (Myo Min Soe / AFP)

It might lack the budget of Breaking Bad, but an episode in Bago region has struck a resemblance to the hit US series about a teacher who sells crystal meth.

This photo taken on June 23, 2020 shows members of a police squad patrolling pagodas in a temple complex in Bagan, Mandalay Region. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

A squad of gun-toting police patrol Myanmar's sacred site of Bagan under the cover of night, taking on plunderers snatching relics from temples forsaken by tourists due to coronavirus restrictions.

Htar Htar Myint (C) paying respect beside a coffin for her husband's funeral ceremony, following a deadly landslide in an area of open-cast jade mines, near Hpakant. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

Two high-ranking officers were fired for having "failed their responsibilities" after a landslide in Myanmar killed at least 174 jade miners, the country's military said on Monday in a rare public sanctioning.

This photo taken on July 4, 2020 shows Pan Ei Phyu (L) treating her husband Sai Ko (R), who survived a deadly landslide in an area of open-cast jade mines, near Hpakant in Kachin state. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

Five Yay Ma Hsay—or 'unwashed' as the jade miners of northern Myanmar are known—arrived early Thursday at the pit to scrape out a living on a scraggy hillside, lured by the prospect of finding a stone that could transform their lives.

 Volunteers bury bodies of miners in a mass grave while relatives look on during a funeral ceremony near Hpakant in Kachin state on July 3, 2020. (Zaw Moe Htet / AFP)

Dozens of jade miners were buried Friday in a mass grave after a landslide in northern Myanmar killed over 170, most of them migrant workers seeking their fortune in treacherous open-cast mines near the China border.

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