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.

Airport staff unload boxes of COVID-19 coronavirus test kits donated by the European Union and Switzerland under the UN organised humanitarian flight on arrival at Yangon International Airport in Yangon on May 10, 2020.(Sai Aung Main / AFP)

Myanmar’s government has given its strongest sign yet that it will lift a ban on international commercial flights imposed since March due to the pandemic.

Myanmar National Airlines will resume domestic flights from December 16. (Facebook / MNA)

Myanmar will allow domestic flights to resume from December 16, the government said on Saturday.

Myanmar's political leader Aung San Suu Kyi wears a face shield as she attends a ceremony to mark the 32nd anniversary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Naypyidaw on September 27, 2020. (Thet Aung / AFP)

Aung San Suu Kyi urged people today to stay inside this Christmas and New Year as Covid-19 continues its steady march around Myanmar.

Five firefighters were injured in the collision in Mandalay. (Khin Maung Gyi)

Five firefighters were injured today when two fire trucks collided in Mandalay—a dramatic moment caught on a camera mounted on one of the trucks.

Pink Nation formed in Shan state capital Taunggyi in September 2019. (Zaw Thet Naing)

Meet the indie band Pink Nation, whose debut album “Naing Ngan Taw” or “The Nation” was released in November to wide applause from Myanmar’s arts scene.

Rohingya refugees disembark from a Bangladesh Navy ship to the island of Bashar Char in Noakhali on December 4, 2020. (Stringer / AFP)

Bangladesh transported more than 1,600 Rohingya refugees to a low-lying island on Friday in the first phase of a controversial planned relocation of 100,000 people.

   People sit at tables with plastic dividers, as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, at a restaurant in Yangon on May 26, 2020. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

The great reopening has begun, albeit on a modest scale, as more than 8,000 restaurants and teashops mostly in Naypyidaw region reopened today.

Paul Sein Twa poses for a portrait in the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network Indigenous Eco-Learning Centre in Ta May Hta village located in the Salween Peace Park in Kayin state. (Brennan O’Connor/The Goldman Environmental Prize)

A Karen activist who helped establish a 1.35-million-acre peace park has won the world’s foremost award for award for grassroots environmentalism.

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