YANGON, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- On a sunny Sunday morning in Yangon, Myanmar, laughter and chatter filled the air as about 50 ...

Now, decades later, Siripanyo lives as a forest monk at Dtao Dum Monastery on the remote Thailand-Myanmar border.

In a monastery in central Myanmar, a Buddhist monk, Wathawa, rallies his militia with a cry: “What’s our spirit like?” “The spirit of iron!” shout a group of rifle-bearing men ...

Myanmar's Shan State has experienced some of the fiercest fighting in an ongoing civil war At least 28 people were killed by the Myanmar army at a monastery in southern Shan state, an insurgent ...

YANGON (Bernama-Xinhua): A fire engulfed a two-storey building of over 100 years at a monastery in Myanmar's archaeological site Bagan, located in central Myanmar's Mandalay region, on Statuary ...

Myanmar has been mired in violence since the ... who were killed in an airstrike while holding a meeting at a monastery in central Magway region on Thursday, and 32 people killed that same day ...

In 2017, a Buddhist monk was arrested in Myanmar and linked to more than four million methamphetamine pills hidden in a monastery.

U Pinnya Zawta, a prominent dissident monk who is a U.S. citizen, has been held incommunicado for over a week, and friends ...