Maha Yangon is a classic tea shop in downtown Yangon, Myanmar. Victoria Milko/for NPR "I do think the tea shop conversations are less popular since the recent boom of smartphones and Facebook.

In the Burmese city of Yangon, Myanmar’s Buddhists watched a big screen as leader Aung San Suu Kyi spoke to the nation amid international criticism over the exodus of Rohingya from Rakhine.

SINGAPORE — In Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon, soldiers patrol the streets at all hours. Police officers stop pedestrians at random, hauling them to jail if they show signs of sympathy for the ...

A street in downtown Yangon, Myanmar. Credit: Depositphotos Subscribe for ads-free reading On the evening of October 30, residents of a downtown Yangon apartment broke down the door of one of ...

In Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, downtown streets usually teeming with activity were empty. In neighboring Thailand, a large protest contingent gathered outside the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok, ...

YANGON: An art gallery in downtown Yangon has celebrated the 75th anniversary of China-Myanmar diplomatic relations with a unique exhibition blending Chinese and Myanmar cultures.

Life in Myanmar’s economic capital thrums to a rhythm starkly different from the war-torn corners of the country. In the borderlands of Rakhine, Kachin and Shan states, the military that ousted ...

People visit the second Myanmar Power and Solar Energy Storage Lighting Expo 2025 at the Yangon Convention Center in Yangon, Myanmar, May 1, 2025. The expo kicked off on Thursday at the Yangon ...

A deadly earthquake on March 28 collapsed buildings in central Myanmar but rumours that the country's most sacred Buddhist site has crumbled are inaccurate. An AFP reporter confirmed the Shwedagon ...

YANGON: Myanmar's military junta let a truce declared to spur aid efforts after last month's earthquake expire on Thursday (May 1), a ceasefire that monitors say it consistently ...