Maha Yangon is a classic tea shop in downtown Yangon, Myanmar. Victoria Milko/for NPR "I do think the tea shop conversations are less popular since the recent boom of smartphones and Facebook.

In the Burmese city of Yangon, Myanmar’s Buddhists watched a big screen as leader Aung San Suu Kyi spoke to the nation amid international criticism over the exodus of Rohingya from Rakhine.

In 2007 in downtown Yangon, blood seeped unseen into the burgundy robes of Buddhist monks who had been shot by soldiers in yet another crushed protest movement. Discarded flip-flops hinted at ...

In Yangon, more colonial buildings are being preserved as homeowners realise they can profit from heritage. ... and his family moved out of their dilapidated house on 47th Street, downtown Yangon.

YANGON, Myanmar—When Barack Obama visits Myanmar for a security conference today, he is unlikely to notice the vacant lot at 233-235 Upper Pansodan Street, in the heart of Yangon's chaotic downtown.

Protesters in Yangon talked to the police on Saturday, encouraging them to join the demonstrations against the coup and show support for the N.L.D. Image Protesters handed out red roses to the police.

Protesters flash the three-fingered salute during a rally in downtown Yangon on February 19. YeMyo/AP. Flower tributes and sympathy messages are left in Yangon for Mya Thweh Thweh Khine.

Downtown Yangon’s vibrancy owes much to its mass of street vendors. People in stalls, with carts, or on the ground sell everything from newspapers to fish to betel leaves to shoes.

Armed police remove makeshift blockages set up by protesters as they patrol streets in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, March 21, 2021. AP.

Myanmar's biggest city Yangon has a distinct old-world feel: blocks of colonial buildings, untouched during decades of poverty and isolation. Now, development could bring them crashing down.