This picture taken on July 14, 2021 shows people waiting to fill up empty oxygen canisters outside a factory in Yangon, amid a surge in the number of Covid-19 coronavirus cases. Photo: AFP
21 August 2021
Oxygen cylinders are in high demand in Myanmar as the country struggles with the COVID-19...
Photo: Asean
14 August 2021
About 30 ASEAN media leaders gathered at the 5th ASEAN Media Forum held online by the...
Photo: AFP
29 July 2021
Singapore will send 200 oxygen concentrators to Myanmar to support the country's fight...
 A security person with protective suit sprays hand sanitizer to a worker who makes disposable surgical gown at a garment factory in Yangon, Myanmar, 02 May 2020. Photo: EPA
20 July 2021
According to a new report by the Clean Clothes Campaign, Asian garment workers are owed...
This picture taken on July 7, 2021 shows migrant workers plucking tea leaves in Cameron Highlands in Malaysia's Pahang state. Tea estates sprawling over rugged hills in Malaysia are facing a bleak future as coronavirus lockdowns cause labour shortages, decimate the vital tourism industry and sap demand. Photo: AFP
18 July 2021
Vast tea plantations spread out over Malaysia's rugged highlands, where a network of...
This picture taken on July 14, 2021 shows people waiting to fill empty oxygen canisters at a location donating oxygen at no cost in Yangon, amid a surge in the number of Covid-19 coronavirus cases. Photo: AFP
18 July 2021
Myanmar citizens face serious problems with medical treatment and supplies in part...
A girl wearing protective face mask and a shield as she waits for taxi at downtown area despite the stay-at-home order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Yangon, Myanmar, 21 September 2020. Photo: EPA
17 July 2021
Minister Dr Win Myat Aye announced that at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is on the...
A handout picture released by Oxfam on April 4, 2012. Photo: AFP
11 July 2021
World hunger rose steeply in 2020, with six times more people living in "famine-like...
A vial of the AstraZeneca vaccine during the Covid-19 vaccination campaign for the school staff at San Giovanni Bosco Hospital in Turin, Italy, 19 February 2021. Photo: EPA
20 February 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has seen a sharp slowdown in the number of new cases, which have...
(File) People visit the holy Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: EPA
09 February 2021
Myanmar has allowed the reopening of pagodas to the public with a limited number of...
A medical worker wearing PPE (Personal protective equipment) attends to a patient at COVID-19 ICU (Intensive care unit) of Yangon General Hospital, in Yangon, Myanmar, 16 January 2021. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
31 January 2021
If the figures can be relied upon, Myanmar appears to be on the mend when it comes to the...
Fireworks on new year's eve over Saint Peter's Dome are seen in Rome, Italy, 31 December 2020. Photo: EPA
02 January 2021
Confetti fluttered on to frontline workers scattered across Times Square after fireworks...

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