The Sule Pagoda is a Burmese stupa located in the heart of downtown Yangon, occupying the centre of the city and an important space in contemporary Burmese politics, ideology and geography. According ...

YANGON, Myanmar >> Police cracked down on students and other activists opposing Myanmar’s new education law Thursday, charging protesters with batons and dragging them into trucks at a landmark pagoda ...

Soldiers fired warning shots above an estimated crowd of 70,000 anti-government demonstrators who gathered in Yangon Thursday in defiance of a crackdown that has sparked international concern and ...

The droves of young people who queued to cast ballots in past elections in Myanmar were conspicuous by their absence from ...

After five years of brutal military rule, residents of Myanmar’s largest city voted with their feet in the first phase of the junta’s election on Sunday.

Teetering on bamboo scaffolding, expert craftsmen are busy attaching blocks of gold to a Buddhist pagoda in downtown Yangon, burnishing one of the city's major landmarks and racking up spiritual ...

YANGON, Myanmar – Police have cracked down on students and other activists opposing Myanmar's new education law, charging protesters with batons and dragging them into trucks at a landmark pagoda in ...

You should get closer,” says the young Burmese woman in the crowd behind me. “If foreigners are there they won’t shoot.” She is terribly wrong. It’s about 1 p.m. on Sept. 27, and I am wedged among ...

The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon is popular for photos at sunset but is less crowded in the late morning or early afternoon. Photo Credit: Meagan Drillinger It's a surreal feeling as you step onto the ...