A seven-tiered umbrella as constructed by laser was installed on the top of the pagoda of That Thong temple, Bangkok, Thailand. Credit: Pichet Limsuwan Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

A large snake was found coiled on top of a gold pagoda at a Buddhist temple in Myanmar. The 15ft serpent was spotted by locals wrapped around the crown of the religious building in Kachin's Shwe ...

Myanmar was once an insider tip for travelers ... is not only due to idyllic places such as the pagoda town of Bagan, which is reminiscent of an open-air museum, the idyllic Inle Lake, or the ...

The military regime in Myanmar is turning to increasingly brutal ... 8 showing four protesters in central Yangon holding up four umbrellas bearing the Burmese symbol for "8." ...

The Rohingya people in Myanmar are trapped in a dehumanising system of state-sponsored discrimination and racial segregation. This is apartheid – a crime against humanity as defined by international ...

Myanmar’s farms are well diversified, with most farms producing rice paddy during the monsoon season and other crops such as beans, pulses, oilseeds and maize, during the cool and dry seasons. The ...

Nearly seven years after the Myanmar military killed thousands of Muslim Rohingyas, in what the UN called "textbook ethnic cleansing", it wants their help. From interviews with Rohingyas living in ...

One of the most colorful festivals in the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, involving scores of ... full display during the annual Phaung Daw Oo pagoda festival, which lasts almost three weeks.

Since late August, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have poured into Bangladesh to escape bloodshed in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Their stories include claims of murder, rape and arson ...

Myanmar – Scattered across the lush, rolling hills of southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region, rebel fighters stationed at checkpoints inspect cars and trucks traveling towards a nearby town ...

Myanmar’s military has been ramping up its use of drones, deploying a combination of retrofitted commercial drones and customized military munitions to carry out a torrent of deadly strikes ...