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Fireworks explode over the sky after the welcome dinner, organised to commemorate the 30th anniversary of peace-building efforts in Wa State, in Panghsang on April 16, 2019. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP

Hidden but hopeful: the youth of Myanmar’s cloistered Wa region

High up in the eastern mountains of Myanmar bordering China, Wa is one of Asia's most remote areas -- and not an easy place to grow up.

Kachin people and children hold placards during a protest held in opposition to the Irrawaddy Myitsone Dam project in Waingmaw, Kachin State, Myanmar, 22 April 2019. Photo: Sithu MKN/EPA

Thousands protest China-backed mega-dam in Myanmar

Thousands of people in northern Myanmar took to the streets on Monday to protest against the proposed reinstatement of a Chinese-backed mega-dam they...

Sri Lankan security personal after a device was detonated in a controled explosion in a van near the St Anthony's Church Kochchikade in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 22 April 2019. Photo: M.A. Pushpa Kumara/EPA

Little-known Islamist group NTJ accused in Sri Lanka blasts

Before being named prime suspects in Sri Lanka's Easter bomb suicide attacks, National Thowheeth Jama'ath's main claim to fame was being linked to...

(FILES) This file combination of photos taken on September 3, 2018 shows journalists Kyaw Soe Oo (L) and Wa Lone being escorted by police after their sentencing by a court to jail in Yangon. Myanmar's Supreme Court on April 23, 2019 rejected an appeal by two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years on charges linked to their reporting on the Rohingya crisis, a defence lawyer confirmed. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP

Top Myanmar court rejects appeal by Reuters reporters: lawyer

Myanmar's Supreme Court rejected an appeal Tuesday by two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years each on charges linked to their reporting on the...

Search and rescue personnel looking for miners at a jade mine following a landslide in Hpakant, Kachin state on April 23, 2019. Photo: MOI

More than 50 feared killed in landslide at Myanmar jade mine

More than 50 people were feared dead after a landslide in northern Myanmar engulfed jade miners while they were sleeping, local police said Tuesday,...

(File) Detained Reuter's journalist Wa Lone (C) talks to the media as he is escort out of court by police after a trial in Yangon, Myanmar, 09 July 2018. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA

US renews call on Myanmar to free Reuters reporters

The United States on Wednesday renewed its call on Myanmar to free two Reuters journalists jailed after reporting on the Rohingya crisis, voicing...

Marijuana plants in Ngunzun township near Mandalay on April 25, 2019. Photo: Mizzima

Grassed up: Facebook leads Myanmar police to weed-growing Americans

Myanmar police have arrested one American and two locals after photos on Facebook led them to a huge plantation of towering marijuana plants near...

A general view of a Rohingya refugees' makeshift camp in Kutubpalang, Cox Bazar district, Bangladesh. Photo: Monirul Alam/EPA

Gangs taking control of Bangladesh refugee camps, report warns

Criminal gangs and militants are increasing their grip on Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, committing killings and abductions with "impunity",...