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.

The "Sar Pe Be Lar?" initiative provides free meals to anyone who needs them thanks to customers paying it forward. (Facebook / Sar Pe Be Lar?)

As Yangon prepares for a 10-day lockdown, a new food scheme to secure free meals for the city’s most vulnerable is taking shape.

Myanmar military personnel wearing protective clothing disinfect a monastery as a preventive measure to contain the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus at Yangon on April 7, 2020. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

Myanmar confirmed two more Covid-19 deaths on Wednesday, including a township administrator who contracted the disease from his healthcare worker wife.

In this file photo taken on September 26, 2007, former political prisoner Bo Kyi talks about photos of other prisoners from the 1988 Myanmar uprising at a small museum in Mae Sot, near the Thai-Myanmar border. (Pornchai Kittiwongsakul / AFP)

From meditation to memory games, former political prisoners in Myanmar are dishing out tips on surviving isolation in a pandemic as the country once severed from the world again closes its borders.

Myanmar Fire Services Department posted this photo on Facebook of the Yangon Bus Service vehicle lodged into the homes.

Dozens of people were injured when a Yangon bus crashed into a residential area in Mayangone township on Sunday.

People celebrate Thingyan in Yangon in 2019. (AFP)

People are being advised to avoid any outdoor celebrations at all, as the country confronts a growing number of Covid-19 patients

Children donated a bag of hand sanitizer tubes to Yangon General Hospital. (Clean Yangon)

An eight-year-old girl has become the youngest person to test positive for coronavirus in Myanmar, as the number of confirmed cases jumped to 20.

Above: Senior Buddhist monks recite parittas mid-air yesterday. (MNA) Below: A health worker screens a man's temperature in a makeshift quarantine hut. (Matt Walsh / Twitter)

Myanmar has stepped up its battle against Covid-19 across the country—and apparently from the skies, as senior Buddhist monks recited chants of protection in a specially charted plane.

In this picture taken on May 13, 2018, an internally displaced woman and a child look on at a temporary shelter at a church compound in Myitkyina, Kachin state. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by conflict in Myanmar face a health "catastrophe" from the coronavirus pandemic, a rights group warned, as international calls grow for an end to fighting.

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