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Young skateboarders play at Mya Lay Yone Skate Park in Kamayut township, Yangon. (Pushing Myanmar)

Support from across the world has helped local skateboarders survive the pandemic.

Aye Aung Win, who works in North Okkalapa township, began learning to make traditional Burmese harps when he was in fourth grade. (Photos and video by Nay Chi Nway)

Down a little alley in Yangon, Aye Aung Win, 37, spends his days in his workshop perfecting the art of harp making

A 26-year old sex worker positive with HIV takes a bath at a treatment centre on the outskirts of Yangon. (Romeo Gacad / AFP)

Of all the risks that come with prostitution in Yangon, the largest in the age of coronavirus is the lack of clients, say sex workers, who blame rising unemployment and fear of Covid-19.

Myanmar Buddhist nun Ketumala reads a book in the library of a monastery in Yangon. (Sai Aung Main / AFP)

In a society where a popular saying urges women to "regard her son as her master and her husband as her god", Buddhist nun Ketumala is already an outlier.

Climate and rights activist Zay Linn Mon stands outside the former Punjab school in Yangon where his brother was told to remove his turban. (Photos by Lorcan Lovett)

While the older generation has sought to accommodate, younger Sikhs are unwilling to accept discrimination and racial profiling as just a fact of life in Myanmar.

Thaung Sein Win, a retired elephant. (Carly Lynsdale/Myanmar Timber Elephant Project)

As the Myanmar government moves to rein in deforestation, thousands of captive elephants trained to haul logs in Myanmar may lose the care and protection they received when working.

Garment workers in Dagon Seikkan protest outside a factory on April 7. (Faeez Safedien)

Experts are warning that stressors brought by the pandemic—among them job losses and general uncertainty—can lead to stress, anxiety, depression and other mental health challenges.

A woman browses in a book shop where Myanmar sex education books are on display in Yangon. (AFP / Soe Than Win)

A debate has erupted over an updated Grade 10 textbook on sex education in Myanmar schools.

Some of the volunteers on the Myeik Archipelago island have overstayed two weeks so far, while the others have overstayed from one to two months. (Photos by Natalie Poole)

The conservationists were restoring coral reef when the coronavirus pandemic halted travel in the region.

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