A boy swims through flood waters after heavy rain in Yangon on June 28, 2023. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





A child plays in flood waters as a youth cycles past following heavy rain in Yangon on June 28, 2023. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





Buddhist novice monks look at geese at a monastery in Yangon on July 13, 2023. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





Buddhist novice monks have lunch at a monastery in Yangon on July 13, 2023. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





Laborers sweep near the sitting Maravijaya Buddha statue made with marble rock, Friday, July 21, 2023, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. The Maravijaya Buddha statue is said to be the world’s highest sitting marble Buddha image according to local media. (Photo by Aung Shine Oo/AP Photo)





Laborers work while visitors stand below the sitting Maravijaya Buddha marble statue, Friday, July 21, 2023, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (Photo by Aung Shine Oo/AP Photo)





A laborer works below the sitting Maravijaya Buddha marble statue, Friday, July 21, 2023, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (Photo by Aung Shine Oo/AP Photo)





A laborer sweeps near the sitting Maravijaya Buddha statue made with marble rock, Friday, July 21, 2023, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (Photo by Aung Shine Oo/AP Photo)





A woman sits next to a man along a flooded street following monsoon rains in Bago township, Bago region, on August 11, 2023. Floods and landslides caused by monsoon rains have killed five people and forced the evacuation of around 40,000 others in Myanmar, officials said on August 11. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





Local residents ride in a boat to down a flooded road in Bago, Myanmar, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Yangon, Friday, August 11, 2023. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Local residents push a motorbike on a make-shift raft made of inner-tubes down a flooded road in Bago, Maynmar, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Yangon, Friday, August 11, 2023. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Volunteers push a woman with her belongings on inner-tube along a flooded road in Bago, Myanmar, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Yangon, Friday, August 11, 2023. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A truck drives down a flooded road while local residents wade through the water in Bago, Myanmar, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Yangon, Friday, August 11, 2023. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Local residents ride a raft made with inner-tubes along a flooded road in Bago, Myanmar, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Yangon, Friday, August 11, 2023. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A Buddhist monk wades through a flooded street following monsoon rains in Bago township, Bago region, on August 11, 2023. Floods and landslides caused by monsoon rains have killed five people and forced the evacuation of around 40,000 others in Myanmar, officials said on August 11. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





A Buddhist monk looks out from a monastery in a flooded area of Bago township in Myanmar's Bago region on August 12, 2023. Floods and landslides caused by monsoon rains have killed five people and forced the evacuation of around 40,000 others in Myanmar, officials said on August 11. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





Miners, rescuers and local residents look at the jade mine site where a landslide accident took place in Hpakant township, Kachin state, Myanmar Sunday, August 13, 2023. A landslide at the jade mine left scores of people missing, and a search and rescue operation was underway on Monday, a rescue official said. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Recovered bodies of the victims of a landslide are shrouded in green plastic sheets at a jade mining area of Hpakant, Kachin state, Myanmar on Tuesday, August 15, 2023. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A man sits at the back of his car in the city centre of Yangon on September 15, 2023. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





Local residents make their way through a flooded street after heavy rains in Myanmar's Bago region on October 9, 2023. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)