Tag: Yangon (city)

Thousands celebrated Wesak Day at Myanmar's Shwedagon Pagoda, honoring Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and passing with rituals and offerings. #VesakDay #ShwedagonPagoda ...

via Myanmar Times, 21 December 2020: Myanmar's first national library began with a collection of palm-leaf manuscripts.

via Myanmar Times, 15 December 2020: Museums in Myanmar prepare for reopening during the Covid-19 pandemic, with new measures to ...

via Nikkei Asian Review, 08 December 2018:

via South China Morning Post, 02 November 2018: Interesting story about heritage houses in Yangon built by Chinese tycoons in ...

Myanmar Business Today, 24 May 2017: The Yangon Heritage Trust has identified some 6,000 heritage buildings in Yangon. A building ...

The Myanmar Ministry of Culture has released draft laws for heritage conservation, but heritage groups say the laws say little ...

Something for you ceramicists - a feature about how traditional ceramics makers in Myanmar are struggling against the influx of ...

Rumours that a bell stolen from the Shwedagon Pagoda in the 16th century had been found proved to be just ...

A bell that was looted from the Shwedagon Pagoda 400 years ago is said to be found in the Yangon ...