Missed this program? Watch the complete video. Rangoon boasts one of the last intact early 20th-century urban landscapes in Asia, with hundreds of colonial-era buildings as well as an unparalleled ...

AS WE SIT IN YANGON peak-hour traffic, Thant Myint-U is conjuring a golden age. The eminent Burmese historian, academic and former United Nations official has devoted much of the last two years to ...

Rangoon, the former capital of Burma, is sometimes overlooked by visitors in their haste to get to the temples of Pagan or the wonders of Inle Lake. But this bustling port city, home to lively eat ...

YANGON, Myanmar—When Barack Obama visits Myanmar for a security conference today, he is unlikely to notice the vacant lot at 233-235 Upper Pansodan Street, in the heart of Yangon's chaotic downtown.

When we’re introduced to 11-year-old Bengali orphan Rajkumar Raha at the start of The Glass Palace (2000) — Amitav Ghosh’s meticulously imagined historical novel set mostly in Burma — it’s November ...

With Burma finally opening up, it seems that Rangoon has rocketed to the top of everyone’s must-go-now list. But thankfully, this captivating Southeast Asian city is still a long way from being the ...