life stories
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
Ah Hkawn is still in her thirties, but her story is one of many lives.
Doyenne of the Kayin hills, Nancy Khaing kept her guesthouse open for years, defying isolation imposed by the army as it battled insurgents
Haw employs a bevvie of young boys at her Mandalay teashop, which helps pay for the education of her own children
Ei Mon Zin teaches kids who work in Mandalay's teashops. From a poor background herself, she knows the pressures that her students face
Mya Thet Mu lived as an openly gay woman in Thailand for 19 years. Back in Myanmar she faced public abuse and now works to tackle discrimination
Zaw works in a Mandalay teashop to send money back to his village. He has few ideas what the future holds, but studies every chance he gets
San Aung was perhaps the only living witness to one of Myanmar's most momentous historical events -- the 1947 Panglong conference
The nooks and crannies of Dawei's abandoned Minglalar Thiri Cinema are home to a little community of migrants workers
When she was just a teenager May Than made a desperate dash across Inle Lake, in a bold act of rebellion against the threat of an arranged marriage
Tragedy has stalked Ja Khun Ya's life since she fled fighting between the army and Kachin rebels five years ago
Pascal Khoo Thwe's journey from tribesman to Cambridge graduate and author is entwined with the ache of exile
As a young man Yar Pyay made a choice that was to alienate him from his childhood friends
The wild animals that Hamang Kuipu carries home in bloody bundles from the forest play an intrinsic part in family life
