Yangon
Smoke, rubble and gunshot wounds have conjured images of Yangon neighbourhoods as “battlegrounds” this week, and though the term helps emphasise the severity of the situation, it can also be slightly misleading.
The recent climb in Covid-19 cases has prompted Yangon police to crack down on curfew violators.
Many Yangonites will wake up with an uneasy feeling of déjà vu—community checkpoints, limbo bars of sticky tape across shop entrances; the semi-lockdown has returned.
Kyaw Kyaw, frontman of Myanmar punk band Rebel Riot, has teamed up with UK outfit Throwing Stuff for a new single to raise money for his charity Food Not Bombs Myanmar as well as Black Lives Matter UK.
The track City Lights gives us a night tour of Yangon.
Travellers using buses in Yangon can now pay for their rides by tapping on and off public transportation using new prepaid cards.
A fashion designer is suing her husband—a footballer for Myanmar’s national team—for allegedly having an affair.
The Asiatic black bear typically roams the forests of northern and southern Myanmar, sometimes the mountains of Bago and Rakhine. This week, the endangered species was found near a Chinese cemetery just outside Yangon.
