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 ...

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 ...

Yangon residents on a footpath by Inya Lake during a weekend in June 2024. ST PHOTO There are few tourists on the streets today.

World Myanmar Yangon, an anxious, frenetic city where 'everything looks normal, but is abnormal' By Alexandre Mandri (Yangoun [Myanmar], special correspondent) Published on February 4, 2025, at 8: ...

May 23, 2008 — The U.N. World Health Organization says the official toll of dead and missing from Tropical Cyclone Nargis now exceeds 132,000, with more than 19,000 injured. The U.N. estimates that ...