Myanmar has experienced dramatic changes economically and politically over the past few years. As foreign investors rush to ...

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FeatureLe Monde managed to visit Myanmar's largest city despite the war. The city has lost none of its buzz, our journalist reports. Yet, beneath the festive atmosphere, many residents are pessimistic ...

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 (Reuters) - There are no skyscrapers in Yangon. No gleaming shopping malls. Certainly no subway system. Its rutted sidewalks are laced with treacherous holes and broken slabs of concrete.

A deadly earthquake on March 28 collapsed buildings in central Myanmar but rumours that the country's most sacred Buddhist site has crumbled are inaccurate. An AFP reporter confirmed the Shwedagon ...

May 23, 2008 — The U.N. World Health Organization says the official toll of dead and missing from Tropical Cyclone Nargis now exceeds 132,000, with more than 19,000 injured. The U.N. estimates that ...

Meliá Hotels has welcomed the opening of Meliá Yangon, the first hotel operated by the company in the country and a strategic project for its expansion strategy in the Asia Pacific region. The group ...