Scams, casinos and high-rises: The BBC visits a bizarre city in a war zone
Just trees, a few roughly-built cement buildings, and a long-running civil war which has left this area of Myanmar one of the ...
Yangon, an anxious, frenetic city where 'everything looks normal, but is abnormal'
Le Monde managed to visit Myanmar's largest city despite the war. The city has lost none of its buzz, our journalist reports.
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Myanmar (Burma): The 78th National Day of the Mon ethnic group is commemorated in Myanmar
Young artists from the Mon ethnic group held a performance this Thursday to celebrate the 78th Mon National Day in the ...
Myanmar bids to put traditional thanakha face powder on UN heritage list to boost cultural profile
While supporters and opponents of Myanmar's military government are engaged in a bloody civil war, both sides can celebrate ...
Myanmar Border Guard Force launches crackdown on human traffickers in Shwe Kokko
BANGKOK: The Border Guard Force (BGF) in Karen state on Friday (Feb 14) morning launched an operation against human ...
Restaurants, Food and Drink
There are shrimp and pork siu mai ($9.50), Maine lobster siu mai ($17) and other dumpling and bao offerings, as well as ...
Myanmar's Tachileik city turns to Laos for power supply after Thai govt action
BANGKOK: The electricity authority in Tachileik city of Myanmar, near Chiang Rai province, is expected to fully switch on power supply from Laos within one to two days, provincial governor Charin ...