YANGON: Yangon resident Aung Ko Gyi browses stalls for a solar power kit he can use to weather the blackouts that have become a constant feature of life in Myanmar four years on from a military coup.

Just before we start, Myanmar and Burma (old name) are the same. Zawgyi, on the other hand, refers to the non-Unicode typeface for the Burmese script. So when we say Burmese Keyboard or Zawgyi ...

(1st UPDATE) The total number of hostages freed so far is 18, including five Thais who were part of an unscheduled release last January 30 ...