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 ...

Many travelers limit their Cox's Bazar trip to hotels, restaurants, and the main beach, with stops at the Burmese market ... site is the Ushai Ching Rakhine Temple, a wooden temple over a hundred ...

Last August, for example, an airstrike targeted a church in Kyeintali Town, Gwa Township, Rakhine ... targeted. Myanmar’s Muslim population — the Rohingyas most acutely, but also other Muslim groups — ...

Two weeks after an earthquake hit Myanmar, the military junta is directing aid to the centres it controls while bombing areas held by resistance forces.

Boosting faint hopes of still finding survivors, rescue workers pulled a man alive from the rubble of a Mandalay hotel five days after the quake hit.

Junta members gave lavishly to monks, funded monasteries and spent tens of millions of dollars restoring some of Myanmar’s Buddhist temples ... erupted in coastal Rakhine State between Buddhists ...

Mandalay, known as a city of rich cultural significance, is home to numerous ancient Buddhist temples ... one of Myanmar’s most revered Buddhist sites. The pagoda houses a giant bronze statue, which ...

Myanmar's religious temples stood as symbols of faith and history. After the recent 7.7 magnitude earthquake, many are ...

Myanmar’s resistance forces on Sunday (March ... The call for the “pause” however is unlikely to be relevant for the Rakhine State where the Arakan Army is fighting the junta’s forces.

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 ...