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.

Mint Htin Ko Ko Gy speaks to media outside Insein township court on June 6. (Myanmar Mix)

Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, an activist and founder of human rights film festivals, was detained in April following a Facebook post in which he slammed the 2008 military-drafted constitution.

This photo taken on February 6, 2020 shows Naga tribeswomen taking part in an overnight ceremony to bless the harvest in Satpalaw Shaung village, Lahe township in Myanmar's Sagaing region. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

The group are part of the Naga, a blanket term for dozens of tribes each with their own distinct dialect living near the Indian border, only accessible by nerve-shredding motorcycle journeys and on foot.

 This photograph taken on January 18, 2020 shows Buddhist temples in Bagan. (Mladen Antonov / AFP)

The couple shot an explicit 12-minute clip outside a pagoda in Myanmar's ancient city.

A Myanmar border guard policeman stand near a group of Rohingya Muslims in front of a small store in a village are seen during a government-organized visit for journalists in Buthidaung townships in the restive Rakhine state on January 25, 2019. (AFP)

The UN Security Council's EU member states called Tuesday for Myanmar to bring to justice those who have carried out human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims.

Nandar, founder of Yangon-based Purple Feminists Group, which is leading a campaign challenging the stigma surrounding menstruation in Myanmar. (Supplied)

Girls and women are told some bizarre superstitions about menstruation in Myanmar, where menstrual periods are widely stigmatized.

 A Myanmar health officer checks the temperature of a child entering the Myanmar-China border crossing checkpoint in Muse, Shan State on January 31, 2020. (Phyo Maung Maung / AFP)

Three days after Myanmar’s health authorities announced the country’s first suspected case of the new coronavirus, the authorities today said that four other patients also might have the disease.

An ambulance collects a patient with the first suspected case of coronavirus in Myanmar from a runway at Yangon airport. (Facebook)

The Chinese patient landed on a flight from Ghangzhou to Yangon.

Travellers wear face masks outside Yangon International Airport. (AFP)

Myanmar on Friday sent a plane back to China with most passengers still on board— including French and American citizens—after one man suspected of contracting the coronavirus was taken to hospital.

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