Myanmar's Shan State has experienced some of the fiercest fighting in an ongoing civil war At least 28 people were killed by the Myanmar army at a monastery in southern Shan state, an insurgent ...
But fortunately the Burma Archaeological Department is now ... a tenth-century Buddhist shrine and monastery. But no mere architectural description can do justice to the artistic impact on the ...
A spokesman for Myanmar’s junta ... entered Nan Neint on Sunday and found dead bodies scattered at a Buddhist monastery. Video and photographs provided by the KNDF and another group, the ...
Known as the Lighting Festival, Thadingyut marks the end of Buddhist Lent and celebrates the Buddha's descent from heaven. This year, many people in Myanmar enjoyed five days off for the festival, ...
In a monastery in central Myanmar, a Buddhist monk, Wathawa, rallies his militia with a cry: “What’s our spirit like?” “The spirit of iron!” shout a group of rifle-bearing men ...
In Myanmar, state media reports that nearly 66,000 houses had been destroyed as of Friday evening, along with 375 schools and a monastery. Several miles of road and other infrastructure have been ...
People walk through flood waters in Pyinmana, Myanmar, on Friday, following heavy rains in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi. Photo: AFP In Taungoo — about an hour south of the capital Naypyidaw — ...