While the pagoda typically welcomes about 40,000 pilgrims on regular days, visitors surged to around 100,000 on special occasions like Thadingyut and Tazaungdaing festivals, he said.

The Shwedagon Pagoda also known as the golden pagoda in Myanmar attracted over 10 million visitors including nearly 80,000 foreign visitors in 2023, U Boe Thin, a member of the Shwedagon Pagoda ...

YANGON, Myanmar — Gongs chimed as thousands of people in ceremonial costumes walked barefoot Wednesday through the marble walkways of Myanmar’s most sacred Buddhist shrine in an annual ...

The top of Myanmar's Shwe Sar Yan Pagoda, to the south-east of Mandalay, has collapsed following a huge earthquake. Onlookers can be heard screaming and shouting as part of the building crashed to ...

The Shwedagon Pagoda, a giant gold pagoda 99m (324ft) tall, is one of Myanmar's most famous Buddhist landmarks. It is currently at the centre of a campaign by monks to stop proposals for a luxury ...

YANGON: Rising flood waters have swallowed a Buddhist pagoda in central Myanmar and sent tens of thousands fleeing their homes, as the government warned of more ...

11.09.2016 - Update : 14.09.2016 ( Kyaw Kyaw - Anadolu Agency ) By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, Myanmar ...