Excitement filled the air in Yangon as 36 teams gathered at the base of Shwedagon Pagoda to take part in the annual ...

On Saturday afternoon (Jan 31), the eve of the full moon of Tabodwe, Shwedagon Pagoda towered over Yangon as Myanmar's most ...

Now in its 18th year at Shwedagon Pagoda, the annual Htamane-making contest has been held. The festival celebrated Myanmar's cultural and religious heritage while uniting communities through the ...

But the shows, which combine dance, drama and music, are also part of an effort by Myanmar’s military rulers to project a veneer of legitimacy.

Sitagu Sayadaw says his 2017 sermon to army officers likening non-Buddhists to animals was taken directly from scripture and ...

Myanmar’s junta created a capital to withstand an invasion. Now, the military struggles to project an image of control over a crumbling nation. An empty road in front of decommissioned tanks at the ...

January 30, 2026 • Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon. Emily Scott Robinson. Blood harmonies from Irish brothers Ye Vagabonds. Stephen Thompson from NPR Music chats with Dre Castillo from KVNF in western Colorado ...

Myanmar’s military government on Sunday granted amnesty to more than 6,100 prisoners and reduced sentences for others to mark the country’s 78th Independence Day anniversary. It remains unclear ...

Voters in Myanmar cast ballots in the second round of the general election on Sunday. The election has seen the exclusion of democratic factions, and the victory of a party with deep military ties is ...

Myanmar’s pro-military party has a decisive lead in the first phase of junta-run elections, winning 90 per cent of the lower house seats announced so far, official results published in state media ...

Myanmar shares a 1,300 mile border with China and is very much in the superpower’s “sphere of influence” – much like Venezuela is within America’s. The growing instability in the Mekong region ...