YANGON: Myanmar's Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as the Golden Pagoda, attracted over 6.95 million visitors in 2025, Boe Thin, a member of the Shwedagon Pagoda Board of Trustees, told Xinhua on Friday ( ...

YANGON, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as the Golden Pagoda, attracted over 6.95 million visitors in 2025, U Boe Thin, a member of the Shwedagon Pagoda Board of Trustees, ...

Some of the raided villages, located south of the centuries-old temples and pagodas of Bagan, were also targeted by junta ...

Ambassador of Myanmar to Pakistan, H.E. Wunna Han, has said that the 78th Independence Day of Myanmar is a moment of remembrance, ...

Myanmar’s junta created a capital to withstand an invasion. Now, the military struggles to project an image of control over a ...

Outside polling stations guarded by armed police, an upbeat music video urging people to take part in the election plays on ...

Myanmar’s military rulers are holding the first elections since the 2021 coup, and life in the country’s biggest city is fraught with anxiety ...

The global community may denounce the ongoing three-phase elections in Myanmar (also known as Burma or Brahmadesh) as a probable way to transform the ...

As the generals smile for cameras, people stay home—or cast ballots under fear—as the military stages a rigged poll to entrench power in civilian clothes.

Myanmar's military is holding its first elections since overthrowing a democratically elected government in 2021. But as it aims to portray a sense of normality, signs of the junta's menacing presence ...

Slip into the slow pace of life in Laos, where a new Mekong cruise follows the river’s course past the pagoda-studded world heritage city of Luang Prabang, into a less-explored stretch of the waterway ...

Myanmar votes in sham election under atmosphere of fear and coercion: ‘What will change? Nothing’ - ON THE GROUND: With only parties vetted by the military allowed to contest Myanmar’s first election ...