Young people had no other option than to rise up and protest after the coup, says Jens Zet. PDFs sprang up all around the country to protect protesters - tens of thousands young men and women during them. The situation in Myanmar is such that the tuna does not have control over the whole country. So it's very difficult for the military to move over land into these resistance areas.
Deep in the mountains along the Thai border, a bloody civil war rages. Our correspondent gives us rare insight into one of the world’s oldest insurgencies. New, stringent election rules will soon be tested in Britain. We ask if voters are ready. And, the bubble tea franchise taking South-East Asia by storm.
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