YANGON, Myanmar ­— Visiting Burma has always been a magical experience, but now there is also an ethical dimension. Travelers contemplating a trip to Burma will be aware that it is regarded by ...

(CBS News) - As they have for 2,000 years, faithful monks practiced ancient rituals at Burma's holiest Buddhist temple, Shwedagon Pagoda Friday. The scene looked like it was locked in time ...

Burma remained under the British thumb and nationalism ... a demonstration at the country’s holiest Buddhist shrine: the Shwedagon Pagoda. Amid the pagoda’s gold-leafed spires and tinkling ...

When asked where the monks had gone, one 30-year-old man who was at Shwedagon in the early days of the protests puts his wrists together in the sign of locked handcuffs. According to Burma’s ...

He left his monastery on the first day of the September protests and was soon marching near the famed Shwedagon Pagoda ... any sense that Burma would be changed forever by the crowds that took ...

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Militant Buddhist monks defied the Burma military government’s ban on public assembly today when more than 50 of them gathered near a gate to Yangon’s famed Shwedagon Pagoda as armed troops ...

YANGON (Xinhua): The Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as the Golden Pagoda in Myanmar, attracted over 8.65 million visitors in 2024, U Boe Thin, a member of the Shwedagon Pagoda Board of Trustees have ...

More than 3,000 people have now died from the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Burma last week, which destroyed thousands of buildings and sent the war-torn country into a deeper humanitarian ...