While opposition to the military government is widespread in Burma ... the protesters took place when riot police and army troops surrounded and attacked monks at the main Shwedagon Pagoda ...

Protesters in Bangkok rallied against the Myanmar junta chief as he visited the city for a regional summit after a ...

The top of Myanmar's Shwe Sar Yan Pagoda, to the south-east of Mandalay, has collapsed following a huge earthquake. Onlookers can be heard screaming and shouting as part of the building crashed to ...

An anti-coup protester uses a fire extinguisher to provide cover for others as security forces approach their encampment in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. (AP Photo) YANGON, Myanmar (AP) ...

YANGON, Myanmar--Protesters gathered ... trucks with riot police arrived nearby. Protests continued in other parts of the city, including next to Sule Pagoda, a traditional gathering point.

At least three people were killed when a mosque in Myanmar's Bago region partially ... significant damage to a mosque and the Mahamuni Pagoda, one of the country's most sacred Buddhist sites.

In an apparent reference to widely broadcast images of a nun in Myanmar, kneeling in the street in front of armed security forces begging them not to shoot protesters, Francis said: “I ...