I wanted to explore the romance of Myanmar's Irrawaddy River, which has stirred the imagination of some of the world's greatest writers, such as Kipling and Orwell. The name "Irrawaddy" is an ...

On the banks of the Irrawaddy River, more than 3,000 temples stretch across a 30-square-mile plain in Bagan, Myanmar (formerly Burma). Most were constructed between 1057 and 1287 during a building ...

MANDALAY, Myanmar, April 5 (Xinhua) -- On the banks of the Irrawaddy River, the ancient city of Mandalay in Myanmar is slowly waking up from the disaster. Ko San Lwin, 52, is in a particularly ...

This phase will urgently take up the issue of water infrastructure that is posing an immediate threat to river dolphin populations. This is especially critical in the case of the Irrawaddy dolphin ...

In Cambodia the Irrawaddy dolphin is regarded as a sacred animal, and folk stories tell of its origin as a woman who, fearing disgrace, threw herself into the river, only to return as a dolphin. In ...

Another newborn Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin has been sighted, raising the number of newborn dolphin calves in Cambodia to six so ...

Ko San Lwin, 52, is in a particularly good mood as his doctor on Saturday told him that he has recovered well and can be discharged from the hospital. After three days of rehabilitation treatment, he ...