Australians Mr Andrew Chan (L) and Mr Myuran Sukumaran (R) inside a holding cell waiting for trial at a Denpasar District Court in Bali, Indonesia. Mr Chan, 31, and Mr Sukumaran, 34, are the only members of the so-called Bali Nine drug smuggling ring on death row for trying to smuggle 8.3 kilogrammes of heroin from the Indonesian resort island of Bali to Australia in 2005. Photo: Made Nagi/EPA
05 March 2015
Australia on March 5 suggested a prisoner swap with Indonesia in an 11th hour bid to save...
A worker hangs a large Chinese national flag covering a local government building to celebrate the upcoming National Day in downtown Qingdao city, eastern China's Shandong province, September 30, 2011. Photo: Wun Hong/EPA
05 March 2015
Myanmar’s relationship with China has always been uneasy. After Chairman Mao assumed...
Armed Myanmar Border Guard Forces patrol in the streets of Myawaddy, Kayin State, Myanmar, October 2, 2014. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
04 March 2015
The Karen Human Rights Group has voiced concern that the firing of artillery shells by...
Student protesters at Letpadan in Bago on March 4, 2015. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
04 March 2015
Student protesters calling for education reform on March 3 defied an order to disperse in...
New Zealand citizen Philip Blackwood (C) is escorted by Myanmar policemen after his hearing at the court in Yangon, Myanmar, January 2, 2015. He and two Myanmar citizens, who ran a bar in Yangon, are accused of insulting Buddhism by using an image of the Buddha wearing DJ headphones on their flyer promoting a drinks event. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA 
04 March 2015
The New Zealand bar manager facing jail in Myanmar over religious insult accusations was...
People carry their belongings as they flee the Kokang capital Laukkai, northern Shan State, Myanmar, February 17, 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
04 March 2015
China has set up temporary settlements to relocate about 14,000 Myanmar border...
04 March 2015
The head of Kokang rebel forces in Myanmar has implicated a neighbouring armed ethnic...
Worries over new and old narcotics. Farmers harvest opium poppies in Lone Twel village, Loilen Township, Southern Shan State, Myanmar, December 13, 2014. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA 
04 March 2015
The United Nations drugs control body says it is concerned about the proliferation of new...
Police block the protesting students in Letpadan, Bago division on March 3, 2015. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
03 March 2015
Protesting students, blocked by truckloads of police, claim they will continue their...
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...

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