Thich Minh Tue is a Buddhist monk who captured hearts in Vietnam last year when he undertook a barefoot hike across the country that met the disapproval of controlling communist authorities. He has ...

Thousands of people gathered Feb. 16 in the small village of Pyin Oo Lwin in Myanmar to pay their final respects to Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, a priest who was found stabbed to death in a ...

Construction of the Peninsula Yangon, a joint venture with Yoma Group formerly chaired by detained tycoon Serge Pun, has been stalled since the 2021 coup.

The main organization coordinating resistance to Myanmar’s military government says its forces have arrested 10 members of a ...

Martial arts is a sport that blends discipline, technique, and power. However, some styles are designed for lethal efficiency ...

Nestled within Bangkok's bustling districts, Little Myanmar offers a vibrant enclave where Burmese traditions, cuisine and ...

Myanmar is applying to add thanakha to UNESCO's world Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The use of thanakha is believed to ...

As the civil war in Myanmar escalated after the 2021 military coup, access became even more difficult. It takes three days from the country's commercial hub Yangon – through multiple checkpoints, ...

The Myanmar military has kidnapped hundreds of young men and women ... As gambling dens mushroomed in the temple city where junta stooges help raise funds for the regime, plainclothes soldiers conduct ...

(Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images) A Chinese temple in the Chinatown area of Yangon, Myanmar, on the first day of the Lunar New Year. (Sai Aung Main/AFP via Getty Images) A Chinese Lunar New ...

Nyein Chan Naing/EPA-EFE Candles were lit at a Chinese temple in Yangon, Myanmar. Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP A woman prays at a shrine in Bangkok... Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP While others pose for ...

BEIJING-From incense offerings and lion dances in Beijing to prayer rituals at temples in Bangkok and Taipei, hundreds of millions of people across Asia celebrated Lunar New Year on Jan 29 ...