The Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as the Golden Pagoda in Myanmar, attracted over 8.65 million visitors in 2024, U Boe Thin, a member of the Shwedagon Pagoda Board of Trustees have confirmed.

Going to a pagoda would be like getting in touch with a god or the divine as much as experiencing Myanmar's sense of community. The Grandeur of Shwedagon PagodaYangon's most iconic landmark is ...

For internal transportation, visitors can choose trains, buses, and domestic flights, although the railway infrastructure is ...

Lack of electricity affects every aspect of Yangon residents’ daily lives, from work to sleep, and now even hotter weather is on the way.

In the following weeks, Myanmar's youth, led by Yangon, rose in revolt. The military responded by opening fire. By the end of March 2021 alone, 400 people had died. By late April, the death toll ...

YANGON: Yangon resident Aung Ko Gyi browses stalls for a solar power kit he can use to weather the blackouts that have become a constant feature of life in Myanmar four years on from a military coup.

"Currently, electricity is being supplied to Yangon region at 48%, Mandalay region at 17% and the rest, including Naypyidaw, at 35%," the Global New Light Of Myanmar newspaper said, referring to ...