YANGON: The South-East Asian Ministers of Education Organisation Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts (SEAMEO SPAFA) ...

Digital analysis by NHK and an international investigative group finds strong evidence that a school in Myanmar was targeted ...

Myanmar’s military leadership lifted a state of emergency more than four years after it took power in a coup, a necessary ...

laid a wreath in front of his grandfather’s tomb during the main ceremony at the Martyrs’ Mausoleum near the foot of the towering Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. Advertisement Article continues below this ...

YANGON: The Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as the Golden Pagoda in Myanmar, attracted over 3.5 million visitors in the first six months of this year, U Boe Thin, a member of the Shwedagon Pagoda ...

Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing attended the wreath-laying ceremony Saturday at the Martyrs’ Mausoleum in Yangon, the former capital, footage broadcast by state media MRTV showed. He was joined at the ...

The pagoda has been a focal point in previous political uprisings, including last year's pro-democracy demonstrations. A sharp spike in fuel prices sparked the biggest protests in 20 years last ...

The country’s deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was absent from the event for a fifth consecutive year since her arrest in ...

Myanmar's junta ended its state of emergency on Thursday, ramping up plans for a December election that opposition groups pledged to boycott and monitors said will be used to consolidate the ...

Gold covers every inch of the 326-foot tower at the center of the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar. BILL SHERMAN/ Tulsa World Worshipers pour water over a Buddha statue at the Shwedagon Pagoda.

The number of COVID-19 infections in Myanmar, which has one of the world’s weakest health systems, has surged from a few hundred in mid-August to more than 27,000 cases and 646 deaths as of Monday.

Perched on a hilltop, the Shwedagon Pagoda dominates the Yangon skyline, and is especially prominent at night, when floodlights make the golden temple glow brightly. In a country of great poverty ...