Local resident Naomi Boucher is sharing traditions from Myanmar as May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Boucher, 51, who is a native of Ye Oo, which is located north of Mandalay, ...

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The medium spins around in a frenzy of red and gold while glugging from a bottle of whisky, part of an age old ritual to honour Myanmar's spirit guardian of drunkards and gamblers. Every year ...

In Burma, men wear skirts. They wrap the skirts, which are called longyis, around the hips and gather them at the waist in one simple, unknotted hitch. The longyi has its advantages: one can bathe in ...

The video looks much like the other aerobic dances Khing Hnin Wai has posted on her Facebook page, at least on first glance. With Myanmar's parliament building as the backdrop, she waves her arms and ...

Burma’s democratic-majority Parliament on Tuesday elected Htin Kyaw as Aung San Suu Kyi’s surrogate president. Ms. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy won 80% of the elected seats last November in ...

A physical education teacher who live-streamed her elaborate outdoor exercise routines on Facebook has risen to fame after the footage appeared to capture Myanmar’s military staging a coup behind her ...

A haunting refrain pierces the night as the tribeswomen of the Gongwang Bonyo, among the most isolated people in Myanmar, dance around a campfire to bless the harvest ahead. The group are part of the ...

In her Facebook post, Khing can be seen dancing to an upbeat tune when the military starts to storm the blockaded road behind her. Khing explained she was oblivious to what was happening and was ...

An editorial in the Christian Science Monitor comments on the apparently shifting dynamics in the trilateral relationship between China, the United States and Burma (Myanmar): Just as he finished his ...

The performance will be preceded at 7:00 pm by free pre-performance lecture. Asia Society Museum's exhibition Buddhist Art of Myanmar is also open until 9:00 pm on Friday, May 10 (free Museum ...