Weightlifting, karate drills and tug-of-war contests are all activities at the facility in a country that produces huge ...

More than a hundred shaven-headed men pour out of their Yangon hostel around 6 am for a day of weightlifting, karate drills, ...

Nearly 400 Christians in a Christian-majority town in Myanmar have been forced to convert to Buddhism because of severe food shortages and threats, according to a report. An unnamed Christian pastor ...

While the amnesty included around 600 political prisoners, it should not be taken as a sign of conciliation on the part of ...

In a monastery in central Myanmar, a Buddhist monk, Wathawa, rallies his militia with a cry: “What’s our spirit like?” “The spirit of iron!” shout a group of rifle-bearing men ...

Malaysia's coastguard said on Friday it was doubling patrols in its waters to locate boats carrying undocumented Myanmar ...

The separatist Arakan Army has gained control over nearly all of Rakhine state in Myanmar, pushing back against junta-led forces. However, it has all ...

Myanmar cardinal Charles Maung Bo has called for an immediate end to violence in the war-torn nation in the New Year by ...

YANGON: About 3.4 million tourists visited the ancient city of Bagan in central Myanmar's Mandalay region in 2024.

However, a split between Christian and Buddhist factions of the group in 1994 created an opening for the Myanmar military, which teamed up with a breakaway Buddhist faction – the Democratic Kare ...

Experts say the Arakan Army operates as the military wing of the ULA (United League of Arakan), the political organisation of the Buddhist people in Myanmar's western Rakhine state. In the last 15 ...