For centuries, monks have sought solitude and isolation on their path to spiritual enlightenment, choosing some of the most remote places on the globe to construct their monasteries. Some of these ...

The attacks targeted three monasteries in two villages under resistance control in eastern Bago’s Nyaunglebin Township ...

Burmese actor-model Paing Takhon, 28, who is better known as “Myanmar’s hottest monk ”, recently announced his engagement to ...

Junta artillery fire killed five members of a family on Sunday, including five-year-old twins, in Seikphyu Township, Magway ...

The Australian former special economic adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi, imprisoned for 21 months by the Myanmar junta that ...

Odisha has a rich Buddhist heritage. Ratnagiri, part of the ‘Diamond Triangle’ of Ratnagiri, Udaygiri, and Lalitgiri, had a ...

Bhikkhu Maitri of International Bouddha Society gave away Lumbini Ashoka Peace Prize, while Chief Monk of the Chinese Monastery presented Kapilvastu Xuen Xang Peace Prize. Similarly, Chief Monk of ...

YANGON: Yangon resident Aung Ko Gyi browses stalls for a solar power kit he can use to weather the blackouts that have become a constant feature of life in Myanmar four years on from a military coup.

India, the country is home to only 450-500 snow leopards. These elusive and endangered felines, often referred to as the ...

The Arakan Army in Myanmar has admitted its members killed two prisoners of war. A spokesman for the armed group says it has punished those involved and doesn't condone the actions. A Myanmar ...

BANGKOK, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Four years after seizing power in a dawn coup that ousted an elected civilian government, Myanmar's embattled ruling generals are making their most concerted effort to ...

Scientists have found a new monkey species! That's the good news. The bad news is that only a couple of hundred are left.