BAGAN, Myanmar - The moment of takeoff was silent and mesmerizing. Within seconds, our hot-air balloon was floating above the treetops, gliding toward what Marco Polo called "one of the finest sights ...

Behind the temple ruins of this ancient Myanmar city, lie tales of drama and inspiration Over 2,200 Buddhist ruins vie for attention in the fields of Myanmar’s ancient city of Bagan. Each seems to ...

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Armed police secure the compound of Ekayana Buddhist Centre in Jakarta in the early morning of Aug. 5, 2013, hours after a bombing attack hit the temple in the evening of Aug. 4ROMEO GACAD / AFP / ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Denis D. Gray, The Associated Press MAWLAMYINE, Myanmar — On the stairway rising to Moulmein’s great Buddhist shrine, the visiting British writer Rudyard ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police have pledged to bar Islamist groups from staging a rally on Friday at the Borobudur Buddhist temple in central Java to protest against the persecution of ...

Just hours after the devastating earthquake that hit central Italy this past Wednesday another powerful, unrelated, quake devastated central Myanmar, causing at least four deaths and damaging nearly ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BANGKOK (AP) — A study issued Tuesday by ...

MANDALAY, Myanmar (Reuters) - Thousands of Buddhist monks gathered in Myanmar's second largest city on Sunday for an event partly organized by a scandal-hit Thai temple whose abbot is wanted for ...