The Phaung Daw Oo pagoda festival has returned to Inle Lake in Myanmar after a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic and violent political instability. (Oct. 20) ...

YANGON, Myanmar — Gongs chimed as thousands of people in ceremonial costumes walked barefoot Wednesday through the marble walkways of Myanmar’s most sacred Buddhist shrine in an annual festival that ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – Amid the towering golden spires of Myanmar’s grandest Buddhist shrine there was talk of politics and hope for the future as thousands came Wednesday for the return of an annual ...

YANGON: Approximately 200,000 domestic and foreign pilgrims visited the sacred Kyaiktiyo Pagoda (Golden Rock Pagoda) in Kyaiktiyo during the Thadingyut and Tazaungdaing festival periods, according to ...