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In Bagan, the ancient art of lacquerware is alive and well. Skilled artisans paint layer upon layer of lacquer (tree sap) ...

BANGKOK--A study issued Tuesday by researchers collecting evidence of war crimes in Myanmar supported reports that air strikes by the military government damaged churches in the Buddhist ...

Myanmar sank into civil warafter the army seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. Since then, resistance fighters from the Buddhist Burman ethnic majority ...

But in Mrauk U just a handful of foreigners have dozens of Buddhist temples to themselves. The site lies in Rakhine state, an isolated region at the western corner of Myanmar, with poor ...