Sought by the junta, NLD member Myat Thida Htun draws strength from her last conversation with her father, who passed away after going into hiding following the coup.
U Win Myint’s insistence that he would rather die when told to quit by the generals doesn’t surprise those familiar with his decades of self-sacrifice as a politician.
Having narrowly escaped arrest for his anti-junta activities, May Oo sometimes misses his former life but is focused on helping the revolution achieve a better future.
The town in northwest Myanmar is at the epicenter of the country’s coronavirus crisis, while local resistance fighters battle junta forces.
Meet two of the most prominent faces in the protests in Mandalay and Monywa.
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 sixth and final installment of his series on driving outside Yangon, Oliver Hargreave visits sacred pagodas and majestic palaces in the Mon heartland and Bago.
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.
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