Officials in Myanmar have destroyed nearly $300 million worth of illegal drugs to mark the International Day Against Drug ...

YANGON: The Peninsula Hotel project in downtown Yangon has been shelved, according to a report by Nikkei Asia. Peninsula Hotels, a luxury hotel group, was planning to build a US$130 million hotel ...

Chinese New Year celebration in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, January 29, 2025. JIM AUGE The bar street in Yangon's Chinatown, Myanmar, January 22, 2025. LE MONDE ...

YANGON — In downtown Yangon, China-funded training programs are providing professionals with updated skills and knowledge to help revive Myanmar's tourism sector after the pandemic.

YANGON: It was close to midnight in Yangon, about one hour before the start of the military-mandated curfew. The car workshops had long gone silent in this eastern industrial estate. But the party ...

Downtown Yangon with Sule Square in the background. ST PHOTO “There are hardly any tourists, only Russians,” one tour guide was overheard lamenting.

Mya Aye, center-left, a prominent political activist who was imprisoned in February of 2021, is greeted as he walks free after his release from Insein prison in Yangon, Myanmar Nov. 17, 2022.

Myanmar's military on Wednesday blamed "terrorists" opposed to its rule for a deadly bombing at a bus stop in its biggest city, an accusation denied by members of an exiled shadow government.

As life in Yangon settles into a surreal “new normal”, a savage military campaign against dissent is feeding the growth of people’s defence forces and generating fallout on the commercial ...

On a recent walk through downtown Yangon, I passed by the shuttered British Club, once a favorite watering hole for diplomats, journalists and businesspeople, who affectionately knew it as the ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Protesters against Myanmar’s military coup returned Friday to the streets of downtown Yangon, defiantly chanting their opposition to the army’s seizure of power as the ...