Skaters scouting for a home

WITH their indie hairstyles, tattoos and ripped jeans, Yangon’s young skaters, many of whom are still in school, look like their counterparts anywhere in the world, and like their peers, they struggle to find somewhere to skate.

The city’s one dedicated skate park was bulldozed a few years ago without explanation, leaving the small but committed group of skaters to improvise with a battered tyre, a chipped wooden ramp and a rail.