A Buddhist nun shows others how to use a laptop for a Zoom group meeting at a monastery in Yangon. (Sai Aung Main / AFP)

The Insight Myanmar podcast team recently sat down to speak remotely with Daw Viranani, a Buddhist nun from the United States who resides at the Chan Myay Maing Monastery in Yangon.

A Buddhist nun shows others how to use a laptop for a Zoom group meeting at a monastery in Yangon. (Sai Aung Main / AFP)

The Insight Myanmar podcast team recently sat down to speak remotely with Daw Viranani, a Buddhist nun from the United States who resides at the Chan Myay Maing Monastery in Yangon.

Karen ethnic people hold posters and shout slogans during a protest against Myanmar Army for the allegedly arbitrary killings, raping, shelling and for the removal of the army camps, at Hpapun in Kayin State on July 28, 2020. (STR / AFP)

What kind of government holds “free and fair” elections excluding ethnic minorities from voting because of a “lack of peace” instead of ensuring that there would be peace in those areas at least on voting day?

A local farmer leads the way to a huge waterfall buried deep within the mountainous jungle that separates Ayeyarwady region and Rakhine state. (Dominic Horner)

Myanmar Mix contributor Dominic Horner shares his terrifying encounter with a wild elephant at night. 

Illustrations by Fred Sanders.

In the first part of this fictional story by British writer Tom Sanders, an ominous series of events are set in motion when a foreign man living in Yangon steals a mysterious stone in Kandawgyi Park.