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Myanmar military chief General Min Aung Hlaing (L) and National League for Democracy (NLD) party leader Aung San Suu Kyi (R) shake hands after their meeting at the Commander in-Chief's office in Naypyidaw in 2016. (Phyo Hein Kyaw / AFP)

Washington has urged the leaders of Myanmar's new military regime to refrain from violence and relinquish power, after the death of a young anti-coup protester sparked new anger against the junta.

A Rohingya man from Myanmar hugs an Indonesian officer after being evacuated from a boat onto the shorelines of Lancok village, in Indonesia's North Aceh Regency on June 25, 2020. Nearly 100 Rohingya from Myanmar, including 30 children, have been rescued from a rickety wooden boat off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island, a maritime official said. (Chaideer Mahyuddin / AFP)

Nearly 100 Rohingya asylum seekers stranded off the coast of Indonesia were pulled to shore Thursday by locals angered at the refusal of authorities to give them shelter over coronavirus fears.

Rohingya refugees, without wearing any mask or any other safety gear as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, gather along a market area in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia March 24, 2020. (Suzauddin Rubel / AFP)

A Rohingya has become the first person to test positive for coronavirus from the vast refugee camps in Bangladesh that house almost a million people, officials said Thursday.

A street food vendor wears a face shield as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Yangon on April 12, 2020. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

From Facebook groups to hyper-local delivery services, Southeast Asia's street food chefs are cooking up creative ways to sell their wares as they struggle to survive during the coronavirus pandemic.

In this picture taken on May 2, 2020, Rohingya refugees stranded at sea are seen on a boat near the coast of Cox's Bazar. Dozens of Rohingya refugees believed to have come from two boats stranded at sea for weeks as they tried to reach Malaysia landed on the Bangladesh coast on May 2, Rohingya community leaders said. (STR / AFP)

Dozens of Rohingya refugees stranded at sea for weeks have been relocated to a controversial flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh officials said Sunday.

Rohingya people are seen at a camp in Teknaf on August 21, 2019. (Munir Uz Zaman / AFP)

The sewage-soaked alleys and cramped canvas and bamboo shacks that house one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are a horrifying scene for experts watching the coronavirus pandemic creep closer.

People in face masks walk through an unusually empty Chatuchak weekend market in Bangkok, on March 21, 2020. (AFP)

Thailand's confirmed coronavirus cases rose by a third to nearly 600, the kingdom announced Sunday, as fears of a full-blown crisis take hold in a country largely spared until now.

 People wear facemasks amid concerns of the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus while walking at Yangon international airport in Yangon on March 18, 2020. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

Myanmar on Friday stopped issuing e-visas and visas on arrival for all countries and said it would quarantine travellers arriving from nine more coronavirus-hit countries.

A woman wears a facemask amid concerns of the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus while walking along a street, in Yangon on March 17, 2020. (Sai Aung Main / AFP)

All Britons in Myanmar should leave the country if they can due to the global coronavirus outbreak, the UK embassy in Yangon announced last night in a statement that caused offense among Myanmar netizens.

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