Myanmar

Exercise instructor does aerobics class while military coup takes place behind her

Not something you see every day… An incredible video appears to show a woman in Myanmar doing her regular aerobics class, unaware that a military coup is happening behind her. In the footage, Khing Hnin Wai, a Physical Education Teacher at the Myanmar Ministry of Education, works out in the foreground, while in the background, […]

Not something you see every day… An incredible video appears to show a woman in Myanmar doing her regular aerobics class, unaware that a military coup is happening behind her. In the footage, Khing Hnin Wai, a Physical Education Teacher at the Myanmar Ministry of Education, works out in the foreground, while in the background, […]

5 years ago

Reuters journalists who had been imprisoned for 500 days have been released

Fantastic news. Two Reuters journalists — Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo — have been released from incarceration in the Asian nation of Myanmar, where they had been held for 500 days. Last month, the pair were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for their investigation into Myanmar’s Inn Din massacre, a report which also got them arrested […]

Fantastic news. Two Reuters journalists — Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo — have been released from incarceration in the Asian nation of Myanmar, where they had been held for 500 days. Last month, the pair were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for their investigation into Myanmar’s Inn Din massacre, a report which also got them arrested […]

7 years ago