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 Yangon court on Wednesday sentenced veteran Australian media publisher Ross Dunkley to 13 years in jail after a police raid uncovered a stash of drugs at his home last year.
Neighbours are clearing rubble outside an old building in downtown Yangon after a thick slab of the moss-covered balconies along with part of the façade collapsed and crushed three cars during a thunderstorm last night.
A meme within a meme outside a prison in Yangon.
SONNE Social Organisation has built a centre in South Dagon township to support some of the city's poorest children.
Pumped out over speakers, Buddhist chants play for packs of stray dogs at a Yangon shelter in an unusual effort to calm them down as Myanmar struggles to control a ballooning canine population and a deadly rabies scourge.
The US franchises will be part of the Secretariat's next incarnation as a space for museums, offices and restaurants.
Sidestepping cowpats and garbage, Myanmar's only home-grown junior rugby side train on the outskirts of Yangon, preparing to take on children from the city's well-heeled international schools.
That's one way to exit a bus.