Yangon

Myanmar authorities have gradually ramped up the use of force to disperse protests against the military coup. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

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.

This photo shows Ross Dunkley on March 23, 2011 when the media boss appeared in a Yangon court on a charge of assault. (Soe Than Win / AFP)

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.

The front of 158, 51st street in downtown Yangon on Tuesday morning (August 6). (Myanmar Mix)

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 boy eats lunch at a SONNE Social Organisation centre in Yangon. (Myanmar Mix)

SONNE Social Organisation has built a centre in South Dagon township to support some of the city's poorest children.

A guard closes a gate leading to Myanmar's Insein prison. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

A meme within a meme outside a prison in Yangon.

Dogs resting in the Thabarwa Animal Shelter in Mawbe, on the outskirts of Yangon. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

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.

People visit the Ministers' Building, formerly known as the Secretariat Building, where General Aung San and eight others were assassinated, during an event marking the anniversary of Martyrs' Day in Yangon. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

The US franchises will be part of the Secretariat's next incarnation as a space for museums, offices and restaurants.

Players from the Little Dragons rugby team taking part in a training session in the North Dagon township, located on the outskirts of Yangon. (Sai Aung Main / AFP)

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.

Commuters taking a bus in Yangon in July, 2017. (Aung Kyaw Htet / AFP)

That's one way to exit a bus. 

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