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.

 In this photo taken on January 25, 2019 Mro ethnic people displaced from the surge of fighting between the Arakan Army and Myanmar military take refuge at a compound of a Buddhist pagoda are seen during a government-organized visit for journalists in Buthidaung township in Rakhine state. (Richard Sargent / AFP)

The internet shutdown in Myanmar's conflict-ridden northwest, described by rights groups as the world's longest, entered a second year Sunday with locals and campaigners appealing for an end to the blackout as coronavirus fears grip the region.

A human skeleton and earthenware pots were damaged at Halin, one of the ancient cities of the Pyu Kingdom. (Wikipedia / Ninjastrikers)

A human skeleton and three earthenware pots were damaged by apparent grave robbers.

Zay Linn Mon and his friends started the campaign on Facebook after seeing the Black Lives Matter protests reverberate globally following the killing of an unarmed black man in the US. (Facebook / Zay Linn Mon)

Myanmar activists inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement have launched their own anti-racism campaign in a country where many Muslims and people of Indian heritage are made to feel like outsiders.

One of the five pagodas targeted by thieves at the Unesco World Heritage site of Bagan. (All photos from CCTV Asia Pacific / Facebook)

Myanmar’s star attraction Bagan has been closed to tourists during the pandemic, but not to treasure looters.

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

Ten push-ups for the Tanintharyi Regional Police Force...now!

A medical officer prepares their protective gear before performing tests for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a quarantine centre in Yangon on May 16, 2020. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

Life must get pretty dull during a three-week quarantine, but seven men likely regret spicing things up with a game of cards at a site in Bago Region.

Lightning strikes over a construction site during the sunset in Yangon on June 3, 2020. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

Four women and one child were killed by a lightning strike while watching a futsal match at a Myanmar military base in Tanintharyi region yesterday.

In this file photo taken on May 15, 2020 Rohingya refugees gather at a market as first cases of COVID-19 coronavirus have emerged in the area, in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia. (Suzauddin Rubel / AFP)

A 71-year-old man has become the first Rohingya living in vast refugee camps in Bangladesh to die from the coronavirus, an official said Tuesday.

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