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.

In 2007 in downtown Yangon, blood seeped unseen into the burgundy robes of Buddhist monks who had been shot by soldiers in yet another crushed protest movement. Discarded flip-flops hinted at ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was working as a journalist in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, when the military seized power. That was on 1 February 2021, and everything changed overnight. Only three months before, the ...

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.

Opponents of Myanmar's military rule heeded a call on Wednesday by organizers to stay home in a "silent strike" as the prospects for peace in the country seem dim 2 years after the army seized power.

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 ...