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.
A group of Myanmar satirists on Monday racked up a second prison sentence for a performance that criticised the military, a decision the artists said showed the judges were "puppets" of the military.
An earthquake caused buildings to sway in Yangon on Tuesday night.
Five performers were sentenced to one year in prison at a Yangon court today for poking fun at the military in a satirical play over the Burmese New Year.
Phyo Pyae Sone was arrested at a Yangon cafe for having what transpired to be candies in his car.
On her scruffy, downtrodden bank of the river, teashop-owner Khin works just a few hundred metres across the muddy water from Yangon and dreams of the riches promised by a new bridge linking to Myanmar's commercial heart.
Firefighters fought a huge blaze at a wax storage house in Yangon’s Dagon Seikkan township last night.
A Myanmar military plane skidded off the runaway at Yangon International Airport yesterday morning, causing delays to some flights for about four hours.
Four countries, 28 days, 3,000 kilometres and probably two very sore backsides.