Let’s hope this uncertain time of the pandemic will end soon, so that we can meet again in Yangon’s downtown tea shop. Meanwhile, we invite you to listen to this fine selection of Burmese music, ...

She was one of the five who jumped off a commercial building in downtown Yangon as the police charged in, falling onto a concrete pavement. She and at least one other person died at the scene.

Kenji Nagai was recording the demonstration on Sept. 27, 2007, in downtown Yangon--part of a peaceful anti-military uprising known as the Saffron Revolution--when soldiers arrived, dispersing the ...