I’m deep inside a magnificent Buddhist temple in the ruined city of Mrauk U in western Myanmar (formerly Burma), in embattled Rakhine State. Beginning around 1535, a thousand workers labored for ...

A deadly earthquake on March 28 collapsed buildings in central Myanmar but rumours that the country's most sacred Buddhist site has crumbled are inaccurate. An AFP reporter confirmed the Shwedagon ...

Standing amid the rubble of a historic temple in Mandalay's ancient city of Inwa, a local guide and resident said on Sunday (April 6) that the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar just ...

Pyay (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic faithful of the Rakhine State (or Arakan), in western Myanmar, have welcomed their new Bishop, Peter Tin Wai, a "Good Shepherd" called to lead the Catholic faithful ...

Myanmar's junta is pushing back with a ... who claimed 200 Rakhine who fled the violence are sheltering in a Buddhist temple. An ethnic Rakhine resident from Maungdaw According to the ICG's ...

The Burmese Buddhist Association in Elmhurst is collecting monetary donations to be sent to Myanmar, where a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Friday. Officials said Monday that the death toll has passed 2 ...

Ayas, a 25-year-old Rohingya refugee who teaches Burmese to children in the camps ... foothold in Myanmar and now controls almost all of Rakhine State. The AA claims its objective is to achieve ...

Long-shot efforts to find survivors from Myanmar’s devastating March 28 ... fighting in the western state of Rakhine, said Saturday night that the military continued to launch daily ...

Myanmar, situated on one of the world’s most ... Geological studies have identified raised marine terraces along the northern Rakhine Coast, with some terraces dating from 1400 BC to 1860 ...