In Yangon, Myanmar, authorities have said that they will crack down on tour guides who allow their visitors to wear shoes into pagodas, says a report in Traveller. "Legal action will be taken if ...

Myanmar has been spending a great deal of its resources on pagodas (consisting of stupas and their surrounding enclosures) and temples (places for meditation called Ku's) as well as on the new capitol ...

Spiraling towers shrouded in green foliage and crumbling, copper-colored Buddha statues: welcome to the village of Indein in Myanmar, home to a series of centuries-old, beautiful pagodas. French ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A General view of the site of a building that collapses following an earthquake in Bangkok. Rescuers found no survivors in the ...

Just hours after the devastating earthquake that hit central Italy this past Wednesday another powerful, unrelated, quake devastated central Myanmar, causing at least four deaths and damaging nearly ...

YANGON: The Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as the Golden Pagoda in Myanmar, attracted over 3.87 million visitors during the ...

Participants dance as a hot air balloon attached with small lanterns is prepared to be released during the Tazaungdaing Lighting Festival at Taunggyi in Myanmar's northeastern Shan State. (Photo: AFP ...

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 ...