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.

Police, wearing face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, stand guard during a prisoner release in front of Insein Prison in Yangon on April 17, 2020. (Sai Aung Main / AFP)

A Myanmar news editor has been jailed for two years after his agency reported a coronavirus death that turned out to be false, his lawyer said Friday.

Pete Evans, who moved to Yangon 20 years ago, has become a hit on Myanmar TikTok due to his language skills showcased in humorous posts.

Pete Evans has clocked up hundreds of thousands of views for his Myanmar posts on Covid-19 prevention, body shaming, and the superiority of the bum gun.

A 25-year-old man who tested positive for Covid-19 travels with his father in the front boat to a hospital in Rakhine state.

A Rakhine man who tested positive for Covid-19 was filmed on May 19 travelling to hospital by river after local authorities reportedly blocked him from taking the road.

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)

Police arrested a Canadian pastor Wednesday for allegedly holding a service in defiance of a coronavirus ban on mass gatherings—after which he and dozens of his followers and their families became infected.

Bags of crystal methamphetamine and yaba pills alongside weapons seized by the Myanmar police photographed near Loikan village, Shan state. (Myanmar Police/UNODC)

Myanmar has made Southeast Asia's largest-ever seizure of synthetic drugs in raids that revealed the "unprecedented" production of opioids in an area notorious for pumping out heroin and meth, the UN said Monday.

The couple tied the knot at a high school repurposed as a quarantine centre in Monywa township, Sagaing region. (Nyo Win)

A Myanmar couple tied the knot at a quarantine centre on May 17—a date they deemed too auspicious to pass up.

Bad weather tore through Pinlaung Palace in southern Shan state. (Moe Win / Facebook)

Once the abode of Shan princes, a historical palace in southern Shan state was reduced to a heap of wood by gales and downpours this week.

Prison officials, wearing face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, stand guard in front of Insein Prison. (Sai Aung Main)

On April 14 at 8.50pm, the owner of Facebook account Nyan Lin Htat Referee claimed Aung San Suu Kyi and her government were not following their own measures to control Covid-19.

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