Growing up in rural Myanmar, Du Wun shunned the jewellery his mother pressed him to wear and dreaded ceremonies where he had to dress in a traditional htamein, a sarong-like garment for women.

As women take a frontline role in anti-coup protests in Myanmar, some have found an inventive way of defying military rule - hanging traditional sarongs, underwear and even sanitary pads in the ...

The Taiwan Association for Human Rights and other local and overseas human rights groups have issued a joint open statement to Taiwan's National Immigration Agency asking for protections for Burmese ...