Myanmar Regime Offers no Help as Kalaymyo Struggles With COVID-19 Outbreak 

Registered voters based in Thailand are taking time off work, traveling overnight and braving COVID-19 restrictions to take part in the Nov. 8 general election.

In the fifth of six articles about touring by car outside Yangon, Oliver Hargreave visits Mawlamyine’s surrounds, finding war graves, a huge Buddha and a seaside pagoda.

In the fourth of six articles about touring by car outside of Yangon, Oliver Hargreave discovers Hpa-an and its surrounding attractions, before heading to Mawlamyine.

At one of Thailand's biggest elephant parks in Chiang Mai, the pachyderms and Myanmar migrants wait in vain for tourists to return.

In the second of six articles about touring by car outside of Yangon, Oliver Hargreave journeys through Bago before making it to Mon State’s Thaton by nightfall.

In the first of six articles about touring by car outside Yangon, Oliver Hargreave describes his first experience driving in Myanmar.

Strange markers in villages along a planned China-backed railway in Shan State suggest the project is proceeding without input from locals, who fear for their futures.

Local residents in northern Shan State are struggling with landmine use and some report that soldiers are extorting money from those who trigger their mines.

Zau Bauk is a carpenter in Kutkai, Shan State. In late August, as the military fought with ethnic armed groups, a shell hit his home, killing his wife, son and daughter.

Kachin farmers say they were too quick to take easy cash to rent land to Chinese-run banana plantations. They now pay the price in poor health and environmental damage.