Another location to experience Myanmar Water Festival is in Mandalay. Local Rakhine people mark the holiday with scooping water up from a longboat and throwing it at revelers.

AA troops during combat operations in Rakhine State earlier this year (Photo: Arakan Princess Media) Villagers living near the Rakhine Yoma mountains said this week that regime forces, anticipating an ...

YANGON (Xinhua): Myanmar's Shwezigon Pagoda in Bagan welcomed over 380,000 visitors during the Thadingyut holidays from Oct 16 to Oct 20, Myo Min Aung, assistant director of the Bagan's ...

That’s the original Pagoda, a four-tier control tower that was built in 1913 and looked made for a Japanese emperor, and the more modern boxy glass tower that had been used since 1957.

There are discussions, yet to be confirmed, that the chief adviser may appoint a special envoy dedicated solely to Myanmar. Such a move would be timely and necessary, as the evolving dynamics of ...

Bangladesh transitional government chief Muhammad Yunus on Monday proposed creating a UN-guaranteed "safe zone" in Myanmar’s Rakhine state to aid displaced people and address the ongoing ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has proposed creating a "safe zone guaranteed by the UN" for the displaced people in Myanmar's Rakhine State and finding ways to support them. "This will be the ...

Residents of Rakhine State’s Gwa Township said they had to pay extortionate bribes at junta checkpoints on the state’s boundary with Ayeyarwady Region as they attempted to escape intensifying violence ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Monday called for creating a "safe zone guaranteed by the UN" for the displaced people in Rakhine and finding ways to support them. This will be "the best thing to ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Monday called for creating a "safe zone guaranteed by the UN" for the displaced people in Rakhine and finding ways to support them. This will be "the best thing to ...

The ethnic Arakan Army (AA) has captured a strategic junta hilltop base in Mae Taung near Western Military Command headquarters in Rakhine State’s Ann Township. The rebel army on Tuesday said it ...

The Arakan Army moved into Pauktaw, a town of 20,000 people close to a crucial deepwater port in the capital of western Rakhine state, on November 15. It opened a new front in an offensive by an ...