scrambled up staircases at the Secretariat building in Myanmar's largest city of Yangon and held their phones through broken windows to take pictures of the compound's sprawling courtyard.

Yangon Sectariat. Back on the bus we make a grand entrance to the Former Secretariat office ... the ornate double spiral staircase, but this building is the birthplace of Burma's woes.

Residents of Myanmar’s biggest city are living in fear, hit by tremors and a quake prediction following the March 28 disaster ...

Some details were lost along the way, as the building changed hands over the years. But at one point, it was rented to the US Embassy and served as a residence for US expatriates. In 1993, Yangon ...

YANGON (AFP) - Home to Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Muslims and a collage of businesses that burst to life as Myanmar's largest city wakes up, the colonial-era building known simply as '491-501 ...

“For a lot of people in Yangon, especially if they have never been outside the country, I think it’s really hard to imagine what an old building could be if it was well-renovated,” he told ...