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, Myanmar – Every evening, more than a dozen men and women walk in a tight row in front of Myanmar's most revered Buddhist pagoda, sweeping the vast marble terrace in unison in hopes of keeping ...

Yangon, Sept 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday offered prayers at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar. Modi also laid wreath and paid homage to the martyrs at the Martyrs’ Mausoleum in ...

Narendra Modi in Myanmar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday visited iconic Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. (ANI image) Narendra Modi in Myanmar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday visited ...

Britain's ambassador to Myanmar was forced to interrupt Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson earlier this year as he tried to recite a nostalgic colonial poem by Rudyard Kipling in public during a visit to ...

YANGON - Shwedagon Pagoda is now a no drone zone. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are not welcome to fly over the famed pagoda or its grounds without prior permission, the pagoda trustee committee has ...