Locked up - A tiger takes a rest at the Safari Park during the opening ceremony in Nay Pyi Taw, February 12, 2011. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA 
05 March 2015
Five journalists whose reports have helped raise awareness about the wildlife trade in...
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...
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...
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...
The Union Election Building. Photo: UEC
03 March 2015
Several foreign embassies in Myanmar have voiced support for the upcoming general...
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...

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