Electric scooters have popped up in cities worldwide but pedestrians in many places have come to see the silent machines as menaces, and authorities have been scrambling to regulate them (Photo: Roslan Rahman)
11 November 2019
Tiny Singapore had embraced electric scooters in a big way, but deaths and fires linked...
Swedish environment activist Greta Thunberg speaks at a climate protest outside the White House in Washington, DC on September 13, 2019. Thunberg, 16, has spurred teenagers and students around the world to strike from school every Friday under the rallying cry "Fridays for future" to call on adults to act now to save the planet. Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP
20 September 2019
As a growing world youth movement for climate action takes to the streets today in many...
14 September 2019
It is probably not well-known that a substantial portion of the proceeds of major crime...
This photo taken on August 23, 2019 shows laboratory official Nguyen Viet Hoang examining mosquito samples at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi. Photo: Nhac Nguyen/AFP
11 September 2019
Hundreds dead in the Philippines; a threefold increase of cases in Vietnam; hospitals...
31 August 2019
From July 5 to July 19, the undergraduate team of the School of Journalism and...
17 August 2019
Myanmar is caught in a conundrum as the government attempts to clean up the country’s...
May Sabe Phyu, a director of Gender Equality Network, spoke to Mizzima about gender equality in Myanmar. Photo: Kim Sangmin for Mizzima
20 July 2019
Local and international research institutions gathered at the roundtable discussion...
The openings of makeshift tunnels, some just metres apart, crowd the sites as teams work around the clock. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
24 May 2019
Burrowing deep underground, thousands of informal miners risk their lives to find...
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
22 April 2019
High up in the eastern mountains of Myanmar bordering China, Wa is one of Asia's most...
UWSA soldiers march in formation during a parade held to mark the 30th anniversary of Wa State in Panghsang, also called Pang Kham of autonomous Wa region, north-eastern Myanmar, 17 April 2019. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
18 April 2019
It has a standing army of 25,000, manufactures its own guns and conscripts at least one...
Mrauk-U, an ancient city in northern Rakhine State. Photo: Mizzima
06 April 2019
As soon as one hears the words Rakhine State, he will certainly and instantly see in his...
This photo taken on March 10, 2019 shows workers building a new oil rig at an informal oil field in Minhla township, central Myanmar. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
15 March 2019
As clouds of acrid, black smoke belched above the flames engulfing an artisanal oil field...

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