Topic: Yangon

Inside a Changing Myanmar - by Corneliu Cazacu

Foreign Policy - 35 days ago
A typical scene of devotion at a Buddhist shrine in the capital, Yangon. . . . . . . A child with a bleaching substance on his face in the city of...

Farmers in rare Myanmar protest

American Banking News - 113 days ago
Yangon police halt a farmers' protest against evictions - a test of the new civilian government's commitment to reforms. Travis Brecher reports.....

Pan Am Episode 4: Bumpy Landings in Rangoon, Hong Kong and 'Excitedly Unrefined' Jakarta

Jaunted - 123 days ago
Last Week on Pan Am: Presidential drama in Berlin. Dare we admit it, but this most recent episode of Pan Am has us beginning to genuinely the show...

Top 5 Pagodas in Historic Bago, Myanmar (Burma)

Viator - 140 days ago
Find many Burmese religious monuments in Bago - photo courtesy of Christopher Voitus via Wikimedia Commons. . For the explorer with a keen nose for...

Actress Michelle Yeoh deported from Myanmar

The Ampersand - 234 days ago
Authorities in Myanmar have deported Hollywood actress Michelle Yeoh who plans to play pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an upcoming film...

WTF!?!? Asian Baby May Set The Guiness Book World Record, 12 Fingers, 14 Toes!!

Bossip - 366 days ago
This baby is gonna go through it once she gets into school!. . YANGON, Myanmar — A mother in Myanmar says her baby girl's 12 fingers and 14 toes...

Burma welcomes first new parliament in 2 decades

San Francisco Chronicle - 381 days ago
0 View Larger Image Burma opened its first parliament in more than two decades Monday, an event greeted with cautious optimism by opposition...

Aung San Suu Kyi leads rally as 1st act of freedom

San Francisco Chronicle - 459 days ago
0 . On her first full day of freedom after more than seven years of house arrest, Burma's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, demonstrated the...

Geography of Moulmein

How Stuff Works - 463 days ago
Moulmein, Burma, a port on the Andaman Sea at the mouth of the Salween River, 100 miles (160 km) east of Rangoon. Moulmein is a highway junction...

Myanmar unveils new national flag

San Francisco Chronicle - 484 days ago
0 . Military-ruled Myanmar unveiled a new national flag on Thursday, just two weeks before an election that the government calls a major step in a ...