Myanmar’s Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival is a major Buddhist celebration, but recent challenges have dampened its spirit Ethnic Intha people perform during Phaung Daw Oo pagoda festival in Inle Lake, ...

Myanmar is marking the end of the rainy season with the annual Tazaundaing festival, an eight-day celebration featuring fireworks and giant balloons, made of bamboo and paper, which are launched into ...

Gyrating dancers passed through the crowds, bowing to men in silk dresses with orchids in their hair, as the normally sleepy village of Taung Byone marked the start of the annual Spirit Festival with ...

Traditional Thingyan water festival has kicked off in Myanmar’s regions and states in full swing. Yangon Region Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein on Friday extended wishes to the people for a happy ...

Myanmar military leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, center, talks with Malaysian Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan, third from left, during their meeting at the military guest house in Naypyitaw, ...

People pay homage on Myanmar's traditional Thadingyut lantern festival at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, Oct. 24, 2018. The Thadingyut lantern festival is held on the full moon day of the ...

A hot air balloon carrying 40 pounds (18 kilograms) of fireworks exploded over the heads of religious festival goers in Myanmar on Wednesday. 9 people were injured at the Tazaungdaing Festival when ...

INLE LAKE, Myanmar (AP) — One of the most colorful festivals in the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, involving scores of rowed boats and a spectacular gold-gilded barge, is being celebrated this ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government on Thursday acknowledged attacking a religious festival held on the grounds of a school in central Myanmar, which witnesses said killed about two dozen ...