YANGON (Xinhua): Myanmar celebrated its traditional Tazaungdaing festival, also known as the Festival of Lights on the full-moon day of Tazaungmone, the eighth month of the Myanmar calendar. The ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — 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 ...

YANGON: The Shwedagon Pagoda also known as the golden pagoda in Myanmar attracted over 10 million visitors including nearly 80,000 foreign visitors in 2023, U Boe Thin, a member of the Shwedagon ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – Amid the towering golden spires of Myanmar’s grandest Buddhist shrine there was talk of politics and hope for the future as thousands came Wednesday for the return of an annual ...

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 — Gongs chimed as thousands of people in ceremonial costumes walked barefoot Wednesday through the marble walkways of Myanmar’s most sacred Buddhist shrine in an annual festival that ...

Thailand topped the list with 7,749 visitors, followed by China with 2,295, Germany with 1,788, France with 1,626 and Japan with 1,453, Xinhua news agency reported. In April of the FY 2016-17, the ...

FILE - Foreign tourists offer joss sticks as they visit Myanmar famous Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar Sunday, April 28, 2019. Myanmar has announced it will recommence issuing tourist visas ...

People visit the Botahtaung Pagoda during celebrations of the full moon day of Warso in Yangon, Myanmar, July 20, 2024. (Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua) People riding motorbikes wade through a flooded ...