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.

 A police guards the police station in Inn Din in Rakhine state on January 24, 2019. (Richard Sargent / AFP)

Suspected ethnic Rakhine rebels disguised as a sports team stormed a bus in rural Myanmar and took 31 hostages -- mostly off-duty firefighters and construction workers—authorities said Sunday.

Crocodiles at Thaketa Crocodile Farm in Yangon. (Dominic Horner)

A 22-year-old man has been injured after a crocodile pounced on him at the edge of Ayeyarwady River.

A woman and her newborn in Myanmar. (UNICEF)

More than two-fifths of women surveyed in Myanmar were asked for a bribe from healthcare providers and more than one-fifth were slapped, mocked or otherwise abused during childbirth in health centres.

Myanmar's top woman fighter Bozhena Antoniyar attends a training session in Yangon. (Sai Aung Main / AFP)

Myanmar's Bozhena Antoniyar had to side-step conservative parents to take up bare-knuckle fighting, but her stealth paid off on her MMA debut when she knocked out her opponent in a record 24 seconds.

This photo taken on August 3, 2019 shows a wild elephant being released into the Zarmaye nature reserve in Bago region. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

Researchers have discovered that Asian elephant footprints can create stable, safe breeding grounds for frogs in Myanmar.

 This photograph taken on September 22, 2019 shows Myanmar information technology volunteers assisting mobile phone users switching from the old Zawgyi font to the unicode font in Yangon. (Sai Aung Main / AFP)

Myanmar is the last nation to embrace unicode that has significant numbers of people online. Without it, most users see international content—and a lot from within the country—as lines of meaningless symbols.

Ethnic Chin people hold placards during a protest asking for an end to conflict in Chin and Rakhine states in Yangon on July 13, 2019. (Sai Aung Main / AFP)

Tens of thousands of people have been displaced across Rakhine and Chin states this year, as the military battles ethnic Rakhine Buddhist rebels, a UN rights expert said Monday.

In this photo taken on April 25, 2018, taken from Maungdaw district, Myanmar's Rakhine state on April 25, 2018 shows Rohingya refugees gathering behind a barbed-wire fence in a temporary settlement setup in a "no man's land" border zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a "serious risk of genocide," UN investigators said Monday, warning the repatriation of a million already driven from the country by the army remains "impossible."

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