Story Archive
2021-12-30
Authoritarian Asian states stayed true to form, doubling down on harsh practices and policies.
2021-10-16
RFA unveils new logo and revamped English website
2021-10-15
The people who depend on visitors to the popular Myanmar tourism destination have seen their livelihoods hit hard by the turmoil of the pandemic and military coup.
2021-09-24
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge in Phnom Penh have been working in northern Cambodia to collect samples from bats that a decade ago were found to have a virus similar to the one that causes COVID-19. An eight-member team has been capturing bats and logging their species, sex, age and other details to better understand the coronavirus and how it has evolved.
2021-07-30
Hidden in the forested hills of Kayah state near the Thai border, volunteers in the Karenni People’s Defense Force practice firing their homemade weapons, do physical training, and play guitar in between skirmishes with the Myanmar military.
2021-07-23
Nearly six months after military Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing and his junta overthrew Myanmar's elected government, the third wave of COVID-19, including the highly contagious Delta variant, is ravaging the strife-torn country of 54 million people. With 296 of 330 townships in the nation reporting COVID-19 cases since May, the military has been slammed for mismanagement and malign neglect and accused of weaponizing the virus as it crushes opposition to its rule.
2021-07-09
In Myanmar’s Khanaung village, farmers have begun plowing as the rainy season begins. They rely mainly on the seasonal monsoon to fill their paddies with water for growing rice.
2021-06-30
The detainees being released include activists jailed for protesting the military's seizure of power in February and journalists who reported on the protests, according to government officials.
2021-06-25
Commuters in Yangon have had limited options since February’s military coup led most railway employees to join the civil disobedience movement and stop working, which in turn shut down railway service. Now, the authorities have managed to create one daily round trip - overseen by armed guards - that connects Hlawga Station north of Yangon to the Central Station in the morning and then makes a return trip in the late afternoon.
2021-06-18
Ko Phyo says he was shot and wounded on the front lines of one of the protests against the coup in Myanmar. Now, he’s adjusting to life as an amputee and single parent in a country in chaos.
2021-06-15
Hanoi is home to a unique style of building - the “tube house,” known as nha ong in Vietnamese. The tall, narrow and brightly colored structures can be found throughout the city and are barely 12 feet (4 meters) wide but five to 10 times as long.
2021-06-08
The art of bronze casting - called Pantin in Burmese - is the creation of objects in copper, bronze or brass and is one of the 10 ancient Burmese arts known as the “Ten Flowers.” Today the Pantin business is relatively small, with about 20 stores in Kyimyindaing Township of Yangon Region. Due to the pandemic and the economic disruption following the military coup, these small businesses are struggling to survive.
2021-05-28
In the wake of the military coup, Myanmar’s economy has been paralyzed and work has grown scarce, with the impact falling heavily on the poor. In a nation that typically is a net exporter of food, the World Food Program warns that more than 6 million people could face hunger by October.
2021-05-20
In response to the increasingly harsh tactics used by Myanmar security forces, protesters are staging quick demonstrations to get out their message and then dispersing before the police move in.
2021-05-14
Amid the continued military crackdown in Myanmar, Muslims in Yangon this week observed Eid al-Fitr at the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
