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 a large ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – Amid the towering golden spires of Myanmar’s grandest Buddhist shrine there was talk of politics and hope for the future as thousands came Wednesday for the return of an annual ...

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 festival that ...

YANGON (Xinhua): Myanmar celebrated its traditional Tazaungdaing festival, also known as the Festival of Lights on the full-moon day of Tazaungmone, the eighth month of the Myanmar calendar. The ...

VOA's Daniel Schearf Recently visited Burma during U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to the country. While there he took this photographs of Rangoon's Shwedegon Pagoda. 1 A Buddha statue at ...

Burma security forces sealed off Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda on Wednesday, fired tear gas and arrested up to 80 monks trying to get into the shrine, cracking down on the biggest anti-junta protests in ...

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 ...

Tens of thousands of people joined junta leader Than Shwe in Myanmar's administrative capital Saturday for the consecration of a replica of Yangon's famed Shwedagon Pagoda. Tens of thousands of people ...