A student shouts slogans as he holds up a Buddhist alm bowl during a march on the road at Letpadan, Bago division, Myanmar, March 3, 2015. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
03 March 2015
More than 100 monks and student protesters in Myanmar began a hunger strike over...
The Myanmar parliament has been urged to reject or extensively revise four controversial laws involving religion and women. People cross the road near Yangon City Hall, Yangon, Myanmar, March 16, 2011. EPA
03 March 2015
The Union parliament has been urged to reject or extensively revise four controversial...
Helping people reconnect. Red Cross station at Mansu Monastery in Lashio, Shan State in February 2015. Photo:Myanmar Red Cross Society
03 March 2015
The Myanmar Red Cross Society is working to reunite and reconnect families separated by...
02 March 2015
A Baptist missionary tour that did not have a township administrator’s letter of...
Photographer Ko Aung Nay Myo. Photo: Aung Nay Myo/Facebook 
02 March 2015
A freelance photojournalist has been arrested in Myanmar for uploading a satirical post...
Information Minister U Ye Htut says due process has to be followed before the media can be in a position to criticise the ongoing detention of a photojournalist. Here U Ye Htut speaks during a press conference in Nay Pyi Taw on August 8, 2014. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
02 March 2015
Information Minister U Ye Htut has explained that the Monywa-based freelance...
Female white elephants in the Royal White Elephant Garden in the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, July 2, 2013. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA 
02 March 2015
Myanmar says it has found a rare, white elephant in the jungles of the western...
Photojournalist Ko Aung Nay Myo has been released after three days of questioning. Photo: Aung Nay Myo/Facebook
02 March 2015
Monywa-based freelance photojournalist Ko Aung Nay Myo has been released after three days...
Wa soldiers on parade. Photo: Li Ai Vax/Facebook
28 February 2015
The United Wa State Army and the Mongla Army have denied allegations by Myanmar’s...
Rakhine State is the home to most of Myanmar's white card holders. A trishaw drives along the main road during the curfew time following communal violence in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar, June 17, 2012. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
28 February 2015
Temporary ID card or white card holders in Rakhine State say they will hand over their...
Both Muslims and Buddhists in Meiktila say they are looking to put the communal conflict and tension in their township behind them. Meiktila, Myanmar Photo: Wikipedia
28 February 2015
Residents of Meiktila, torn by interreligious strife in 2013, have petitioned the...
Families and friends of those addicted to alcohol often suffer. Photo: Al-Anon Family Groups
27 February 2015
Helen May says it was after she was introduced to a local woman in Yangon struggling to...

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