This picture taken on October 19, 2018 shows a green turtle nesting at a beach on Thameehla Island. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
01 November 2018
Peril plagues the lives of Myanmar's baby turtles: if crabs don't get them before they...
This photo taken on June 9, 2018 shows Myanmar climber Pyae Phyo Aung climbing a route up the wall during training at Bayin Nyi cave inHpa-an, Karen state, in preparation for an expedition to Hkakabo Razi on the northern tip of Myanmar near the border with China and India. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
15 August 2018
A two-week jungle trek followed by a sheer climb up avalanche-prone slopes to a jagged...
Dr Hsu Nwe Zaw, Nestlé Nutrition, Health and Wellness Manager
13 April 2018
The Thingyan holiday provides a good chance for families to cook up some special food....
02 January 2018
In a traditional Chin family, either the oldest or youngest son receives the hereditament...
Vendors sell food at their stall on a street in Yangon. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
26 September 2017
Strand road, Yangon comes alive at night with market stalls selling all sorts of food...
In this photograph taken on August 11, 2017, a woman wears VR goggles as she watches some of the 360˚ 4K video footage that a specialized company recorded at the ancient city of Bagan and its crumbling 700-year-old buildings, while visiting the office of Nyi Lin Seck during an open house visual event in Yangon. Few countries in the world have experienced such rapid discovery of technology than Myanmar which has leapfrogged from the analogue to digital era in just a few years. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
23 August 2017
Gasps echo across the hall as the Myanmar school kids trial virtual reality goggles,...
This photo taken on July 4, 2017 shows elderly residents of the "Twilight Villa" nursing home being watched by nurses in one of the centre's rooms on the edge of Yangon. Set up in 2010, the Twilight Villa retirement home already cares for 120 people over the age of 70 and has more than 100 people on its waiting list. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
02 August 2017
Paralysed on one side by a stroke and barely able to speak, Tin Hlaing was left to die at...
This photo taken on July 5, 2017 shows boutique owner Pyone Thet Thet Kyaw (R), owner and designer of Virya Couture, posing at her shop at Yangon. With Myanmar emerging as a manufacturing hub for mass-produced clothes, a crop of young designers are using home-grown fashion to preserve the country's sartorial heritage and reshape the sweatshop model. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
10 July 2017
With Myanmar emerging as a manufacturing hub for mass-produced clothes, a crop of young...
THE VENERABLE W. A film by Barbet Schroeder.
25 May 2017
Barbet Schroeder spent months with Ugandan dictator Idi Amin at the height of his power,...
This photo taken on April 27, 2017 shows young Myanmar performing stunts under a bridge in downtown Yangon. Skidding and screeching across the concrete the young bikers perform a carefully choreographed dance of gravity-defying stunts, a dazzling display of Myanmar's thriving youth culture on the streets of its biggest city. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
22 May 2017
Skidding and screeching across the concrete the young bikers perform a carefully...
In this photo taken on March 7, 2017, devotees watch a medium invoke spirits inside a shrine in Shwe Ku Ni village during the Ko Gyi Kyaw Nat festival. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
15 March 2017
The medium spins around in a frenzy of red and gold while glugging from a bottle of...
This photo taken on February 6, 2017 shows part-time medium Win Win Aye (C) being possessed in her house on the outskirts of Yangon. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
10 March 2017
From spells to win back an errant lover to help communing with the spirits, Myanmar's...

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