The Sule Pagoda is a Burmese stupa located in the heart of downtown Yangon, occupying the centre of the city and an important space in contemporary Burmese politics, ideology and geography. According ...

You should get closer,” says the young woman in the crowd behind me. “If foreigners are here, they won’t shoot.” It’s about 1 p.m. on Sept. 27, and I am wedged among thousands of pro-democracy ...

YANGON, Myanmar – Police have cracked down on students and other activists opposing Myanmar's new education law, charging protesters with batons and dragging them into trucks at a landmark pagoda in ...

Sule Pagoda sits in a golden aura at the end of Sule Pagoda Road in downtown Yangon, known by the British as Rangoon. The road also runs past my hotel, the Shangri-La Sule. I arrived in Myanmar (Burma ...

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 ...

The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon is popular for photos at sunset but is less crowded in the late morning or early afternoon. Photo Credit: Meagan Drillinger It's a surreal feeling as you step onto the ...