women
As a group of friends meet for the first time since the coup, a young woman talks about the frightening incidents that forced her out of her job
The prominent display of women's longyis on International Women's Day in a socially conservative country like Myanmar gave Linn "chills"
Yaw Shen, who is in her 90s, is one of the last known masters of the nose flute in this part of Myanmar's Chin State
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
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
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
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
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
Three teenage fighters in Myeik are beating traditional views of women, punching their way into male-dominated Lethwei kick-boxing
To set up her rights group, Mu Iris Arr Paing dodged warring armies, collected beer bottles -- and even created a football tournament
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
Moe Set Aye, 37, left her home in Dawei more than a decade ago and travelled to Thailand in search of a better life
Tragedy has stalked Ja Khun Ya's life since she fled fighting between the army and Kachin rebels five years ago
In her 30s Than Than left her village and found work as a nanny in Yangon. Almost five decades later she is still employed by the same household
There’s a graceful pride in the way that Cë̀kom carries herself that lets you know she is the daughter of a former Lahe chief
Former tattoo artist Makui Lainyiu sings a haunting lament to the loss of Naga culture rarely heard outside her homeland
Makury, Konyak, Mongray (Tangshang), Lainong tribes can all find their handmade traditional blankets at Ahtue's little Lahe store
