YANGON, Myanmar – Police have cracked down on students and other activists opposing Myanmar's new education law, charging protesters with batons and dragging them into trucks at a landmark pagoda in ...

The Sule Pagoda is a Burmese stupa located in the heart of downtown Yangon, occupying the centre of the city and an important space in contemporary Burmese politics, ideology and geography. According ...

YANGON, Myanmar >> Police cracked down on students and other activists opposing Myanmar’s new education law Thursday, charging protesters with batons and dragging them into trucks at a landmark pagoda ...

Soldiers fired warning shots above an estimated crowd of 70,000 anti-government demonstrators who gathered in Yangon Thursday in defiance of a crackdown that has sparked international concern and ...

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 ...

Monks marched in Myanmar's largest city for a fourth straight day Friday, as the military junta insisted it has no plans to impose a state of emergency to quell protests that pose the greatest ...

YANGON, Myanmar — As enthusiastic crowds of tens of thousands marched through the streets of Myanmar’s biggest city on Sunday to protest last week’s coup ousting Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government, ...

The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon is popular for photos at sunset but is less crowded in the late morning or early afternoon. Photo Credit: Meagan Drillinger It's a surreal feeling as you step onto the ...