In Naypyidaw, there seem to be more water buffalo than cars. NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar -- As President Obama spends the day pushing for further democratic reforms in Myanmar, he is doing so in a place that ...

Reporting from Naypyidaw, Myanmar — Tin Ko Ko Oo stepped off the bus on a humid Sunday evening carrying a binder thick with reading material and a duffel bag overstuffed with food and clean laundry.

There aren’t any,” says the hotelier with an embarrassed laugh when I ask about the best tourist attractions in Burma’s new capital. That’s no surprise, really. Naypyidaw–the name translates as “Abode ...

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has met with Acting President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Chairman of ...

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NEW DELHI: The Myanmar security services shot down seven drones on Thursday over the military-built capital Naypyidaw airport, the Junta said. Following the military's removal of Aung San Suu Kyi's ...

The next stop on the Belarusian Head of State’s big trip was MyanmarNaypyidaw International Airport, where the Belarusian leader ...

It was supposed to be a symbol of power, progress and modernity, the face of a new Myanmar, built at a cost of billions of dollars and immune to foreign invaders and natural disasters. Now the ...

Myanmar moved its capital from Yangon to Naypyidaw in 2005, a decision wrapped in official planning and old stories about spirits, astrologers and troubled energy linked to Yangon’s past.

As U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton makes her historic visit to Burma from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, she will be touring two vastly different cities. Clinton, the first U.S. Secretary of State to ...