People search for plastic bottles and recyclable material at a waste dumping area next to the Yangon River on the outskirts of Yangon on September 10, 2024. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





People wade through flood waters in Thagaya in Myanmar's Bago region on September 12, 2024, following heavy rains in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi. Millions of people across Southeast Asia struggled on September 12 with flooded homes, power cuts and wrecked infrastructure after Typhoon Yagi swept through the region, as the death toll passed 200. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





Two men guide cattle through high flowing flood waters in Sin Thay village in Pyinmana, in Myanmar's Naypyidaw region, on September 13, 2024, following heavy rains in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





Residents are helped through flood waters by military personnel in Pyinmana in Myanmar's Naypyidaw region on September 13, 2024, following heavy rains in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi. Typhoon Yagi brought a colossal deluge of rain that has inundated a swathe of northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, triggering deadly landslides and widespread river flooding. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





Police carry residents affected by flooding through floodwaters in Pyinmana town, located in Myanmar's Naypyidaw region on September 13, 2024, following heavy rains in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





Residents are helped through high flood waters by police in Pyinmana town in Myanmar's Naypyidaw region on September 13, 2024, following heavy rains in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





Residents walk through flood waters in Pyinmana in Myanmar's Naypyidaw region on September 13, 2024, following heavy rains in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





Flood victims wade through the flood waters with a makeshift raft during the flood in Taungoo, Bago division, Myanmar, 14 September 2024. Heavy rains triggered by Typhoon Yagi have caused severe flooding in parts of Myanmar, leaving thousands stranded in their homes, with further heavy rainfall and thunderstorms expected, according to the state weather office. A statement from the Military announced 59,413 households were affected in 34 townships and set up 187 relief camps for the 236,649 people. There were 33 casualties due to the flood in the country including the Naypyitaw. (Photo by Nyein Chan Naing/EPA)





Flood victims take rest at a temporary camp that opened at a monastery in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Sunday, September 15, 2024. (Photo by Aung Shine Oo/AP Photo)





Local residents wade through flooded water at a broken bridge, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, September 17, 2024. (Photo by Aung Shine Oo/AP Photo)





Local residents carry food on their cart, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, September 17, 2024. (Photo by Aung Shine Oo/AP Photo)





A women and child wade through a flooded road, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Myanmar, Tuesday, September 17, 2024. (Photo by Aung Shine Oo/AP Photo)





A boy wades through a flooded road, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, September 17, 2024. (Photo by Aung Shine Oo/AP Photo)





Boys try to clean up the debris from a flooding at home in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Wednesday, September 18, 2024. (Photo by Aung Shine Oo/AP Photo)





An explosion occurs during a bombardment carried out by Myanmar's military in Lashio in Myanmar's northern Shan State on September 24, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Passengers on trishaws move through a road flooded by heavy rain Monday, October 21, 2024, in Yangon, Myanmar. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





Buddhist nuns collect alms at a shop in the Jade Market in Mandalay on October 23, 2024. On the outskirts of Mandalay nervous Myanmar soldiers man a checkpoint just kilometres away from rebels who have set their sights on the former royal capital of 1.5 million people. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





This photo taken on October 25, 2024 shows a worker carving a marble Buddha statue in Mandalay. Moving marble across the divide of Myanmar's civil war from rebel to junta-held territory has become an expensive, difficult and dangerous mission in recent months, after opponents of the ruling military seized quarries near Mandalay that for generations have provided the precious white stone that adorns the city's palaces and monasteries, and the shrines in ordinary homes. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





A woman prays for her relatives during the annual observance of All Saint's Day in a Christian cemetery at Kanasoekone village in Wakema Town, Myanmar's Delta, on November 1, 2024. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





A vendor prepares her stall as she waits for customer at a street market in Taunggyi, Myanmar's northeast Shan Sate on November 13, 2024. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)