Myanmar matters — as a challenge in the battle between democracy and authoritarianism, as a contest for influence between the ...

NAY PYI TAW (Xinhua): After more than three years of construction, Myanmar is preparing to unveil a giant sitting marble statue of Lord Buddha in its capital Nay Pyi Taw on Aug. 1, the Information ...

Naypyidaw, officially known as Nay Pyi Taw (NPT), is the capital and third-largest city of Myanmar. The city was founded on a greenfield site near Pyinmana, about 200 miles north of the less ...

It is followed by all Myanmar Buddhists and is said to date back more than 2 1/2 millennia, a religious gift given by Buddha to his own son, Rahula. On Saturday, the colors pink and gold seemed to ...

Buddhist-majority Myanmar has been mired in ... high statue of the Buddha made from Madaya marble to adorn its custom-built ...