Life & Work
This 30-year-old Kayin woman in Tanintharyi say the people of the village have only each other to rely on.
A Kayin teacher in Myeik was the first person in her village to take part in CDM, determined not to live under dictatorship again
The prominent display of women's longyis on International Women's Day in a socially conservative country like Myanmar gave Linn "chills"
In the normally vibrant Yangon neighbourhood of Sanchaung, police went door-to-door last week detaining and beating people. This medical student...
Linn and her family hide in the darkness at home as gunshots from soldiers ring out across the city, in a night of terror in Yangon
Linn, 28, is from Myanmar’s Shan State but lives and works in Yangon. This is her resistance diary.
An ethnic environmental lawyer taking part in protests in Yangon hopes this can be an opportunity to heal the country’s divisions and create a...
On one of the bloodiest days since the military seized power, a 39-year-old teacher in Hpa An explains why she refuses to work under the junta
A 24-year-old Rohingya student has had apologies from some fellow Burmese protesters for the treatment of the Rohingya but still feels nervous.
A medical specialist in Yangon tells The Kite Tales of the agonising decision to leave their patients to join the civil disobedience movement (CDM)
This 25-year-old Kachin protester in Myitkyina hoped to study abroad this year, but now his priority is to protest the coup.
Born in Kachin but raised in Yangon, this 23-year-old says the hurt felt across Myanmar echoes the pain caused by the army in minority areas
A government worker explains why she joined the civil disobedience movement and says there is an intergenerational struggle against the military
A 27-year-old in Myitkyina, Kachin State tells the Kite Tales about her hopes and fears for the protests.
As a pastor in a region lacerated by conflict, Saw Bo Thar spent his working life dodging the hostilities between Myanmar's army and the KNU
Threatened with jail, forced to flee and once branded an enemy of the state, Cheery Zahau is now one of Myanmar's top women's rights campaigners
Myint Myint Kyaw has seen many brutal fights in her decades in the ring, first as a pioneering Myanmar lethwei kickboxer and now as a referee
Dr Kyaw Thu Latt looks back on his time treating patients in some of Myanmar’s most forbidding borderlands with surprise at his adventurousness
Trouble crept into Aye’s life when she was a child, curling bitter tendrils around her in a subtle snare that pulled tighter the more she twisted
Lwin Lwin Aye has become a key advocate for victims of abuse in Dawei -- but she had to defy her family to do it
Tin Maung has been planting coffee for two decades, but without the means to process it he has never tasted a brew of his own beans.
Kamella Lama has never married, but she has looked after her family's Gurkha wedding treasures for most of her adult life
Orders for Dawt Kheng's intricate designs come from ethnic Chins across the world, who wait months for her prized fabrics
In 1960s Myanmar, Albert Ho, a boy from a Chinese Muslim family, was taught his impeccable English by a group of beloved Italian nuns.
