The Poy Sang Long celebration is a vibrant three-day ritual before boys of Myanmar's Shan people enter monastic life for up ...

Dressed in flowers, finery and makeup, scores of boys were paraded around a temple in Thailand after having their heads ...

Nearly quarter of a million people who fled war-torn Shan State and Sagaing Region for Mandalay city are now struggling for food and shelter, having been denied regime earthquake relief, according to ...

The Buddhist celebration is unique to the Shan people of northeastern Myanmar, hundreds of thousands of whom have moved to Thailand during their country's decades of dictatorship and turmoil.

Golden Land Ablaze by Bertil Lintner offers a sharp, insightful account of Myanmar’s political unrest, ethnic conflict, and ...

the people there were hit with a devastating earthquake of magnitude 7.7. The official death toll passed 1,600 on Sunday but is expected to be much higher. Not long after the earthquake, the Myanmar ...

The Buddhist celebration is unique to the Shan people of northeastern Myanmar, hundreds of thousands of whom have moved to Thailand during their country's decades of dictatorship and turmoil. In ...