For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.
For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.
While COVID-19 gets all the attention, air pollution contributes to far more deaths each year in Myanmar and a recent joint study has helped shed light on the sources of this pollution in Yangon.
BY Kirt A. Page
Though soldiers cast ballots outside their bases for the first time in the November election, the military vote enabled the Union Solidarity and Development Party to clinch rare victories in borderland constituencies.
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Myanmar is "unable and unwilling" to investigate its abuses against Rohingya Muslims, a UN rights envoy has said, bolstering calls for the country's generals to be hauled before an international court.
BY AFP
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BY AFP
Aung San Suu Kyi vowed to increase transparency over the Rohingya crisis while pitching for foreign investment ahead of a regional summit in Tokyo.
BY AFP
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One of the most important events in the Buddhist calendar leaves a bus traveller with time to count lots of hats.
Drivers visit a famous shrine on Yangon’s outskirts to propitiate its nat in the belief it will protect them in business and on the roads.
BY Su Myat Mon
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BY Ben Dunant
For 50 years, successive Myanmar governments have banned the import of foreign liquor but the only beneficiary has been the black market.
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