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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.

Singles attend a speed dating event in Yangon. (Andrew King)

Our writer went along for the gin and tonics and awkward conversation

A young woman (unrelated to our reader below) reads a newspaper as she has breakfast in a street in Yangon. (AFP / Nicolas Asfouri)

Do you have any advice or idea on how to pull me up from the bottom of the ocean please?
 

People watch the Pride festival in Yangon on January 26. (Sai Aung Main / AFP)

The event has become a cherished bridge between the LGBTIQ community and Myanmar's wider society. 

 More than 100,000 stray dogs roam the streets of Yangon, sleeping in doorways, nosing through rubbish and barking their challenges to each other late into the night. (Romeo Gacad / AFP)

A reader suggests taking it dog-by-dog is the more humane way.

An EDM gathering in Myanmar. (Photo via Together Festival)

With yet another EDM festival wrapped up, one young Yangonite has had enough.

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