Myanmar rebels sign ceasefire with military after China-mediated talks

The ceasefire with the Ta’ang National Liberation Army, or TNLA, marks a significant victory for Myanmar’s military ...

A military-backed party in Myanmar holds rallies as campaigning begins for December election

Political parties in military-run Myanmar have kicked off their election campaigns two months ahead of scheduled national ...
IEEE

Variable-Rate Deep Image Compression through Spatially-Adaptive Feature Transform

Abstract: We propose a versatile deep image compression network based on Spatial Feature Transform (SFT) [45], which takes a source image and a corresponding quality map as inputs and produce a ...
MusicRadar

“My producer Mickie Most said, ‘We can’t let a wild boy like Hendrix in there. We have to control the song, Don’”: ’60s icon Donovan tells the story of the “heavy ...

In 1968, folk singer Donovan was in India, studying transcendental meditation with The Beatles, when he finished writing a groundbreaking song that would become one of his biggest hits. He named it ...
Al Jazeera English

Myanmar activists to sue Norway’s Telenor for handing data to military

A group of civil society organisations in Myanmar plans to take legal action against Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor, accusing it of passing customer data to the country’s military government for use ...