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Chiang Mai under haze: city tops global air pollution table as PM2.5 hits hazardous levels
Chinese New Year in Chiang Mai
A protest held in private
The view from inside a Chin community centre in Kuala Lumpur's Pudu district, where refugees from Myanmar held a demonstration against regime elections.
Myanmar refugees in Malaysia protest regime elections
James Bawi Thang Bik, chairperson of the Alliance of Chin Refugees speaks at an election protest in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Myanmar refugees in Malaysia face new registration regime
Myanmar refugees in Malaysia face growing uncertainty as a UN refugee agency documentation process is challenged by a new Malaysian initiative during ongoing refugee deportations.
Myanmar refugees in Malaysia protest against regime elections
Pacifist Farooq reads a poem at a refugee festival in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, on 18 January 2026
A dispatch from Mandalay - six months on from historic earthquake
Myanmar’s strongest earthquake in a century struggled to spur international support in any meaningful way. Nor did it inspire any let up in the military’s violence – and in the second largest city of Mandalay, oppression is only intensifying.
Downtown Mandalay, five months on from Myanmar's historic earthquake
A motorist in Mandalay, Myanmar
A motorist looks at a plot of rubble in downtown Mandalay, Myanmar, six months on from historic earthquake
A group of men play a game of carrom at a tea shop in Mandalay, Myanmar on 30 August 2025
Mandalay, Myanmar
