At a charming Kayan restaurant overlooking Yangon’s Pazundaung Creek, the waiter uses a cleaver to crack open a clay mound. He extracts a bamboo-wrapped chicken, dripping in its own juices. It’s been ...

Yangon, in Myanmar, has lost hundreds of colonial buildings to rapid development over the past two decades. A handful of heritage hotels -- think teak mansions and grand colonial facades -- are ...

YANGON — Two employees and the manager of a Yangon bar shut down for using image of the Buddha wearing headphones to promote an event appeared in court Thursday to face charges of insulting Buddhism.

YANGON: Myanmar's junta, which has appealed for international aid to cope with the disastrous impact of Cyclone Nargis, is barring foreign journalists from entering the country and has expelled one ...

YANGON -- Myanmar pardoned more than 100 prisoners Friday, including a New Zealander and 34 others jailed on political charges, officials said, days before a historic political transition that will ...

YANGON (AFP) - The Myanmar owner of a Yangon bar accused of insulting Buddhism in a drinks promotion told the court Tuesday the New Zealand bar manager was responsible for the offending ad that could ...

War has left people hungry in western Myanmar, but conflict-displaced chefs preserve the local flavours of its delicate noodles and briny broth far from a region where conflict blights harvests.

Philip Blackwood had been imprisoned for defaming Buddhism after he used an image of a Buddha wearing headphones to promote a cheap drinks night at the Yangon bar where he worked Credit: Photo: Rex ...