KOCHI, India, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Myanmar could export as much as 20 tonnes of gold in 2019 after the Southeast Asian country earlier this year permitted exports of the precious metal for the first time ...

YANGON, Myanmar - The Shwedagon Pagoda, or Golden Pagoda, is the largest and most striking temple in a land dotted with thousands of Buddhist temples. An Englishman visiting the pagoda in 1586 called ...

Myanmar may be the last frontier market in Asia, but investors remain cautiously optimistic, and the economic transition will need to be delicately handled. When Myanmar’s foreign minister Wunna Maung ...

Have the design magazines made it out to Daw Yee Myanmar Corner yet? Because it is hard to imagine a restaurant better-suited to a page or two in Dwell: a small Silver Lake dining room decked out with ...

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (Burma), October 21, 2011 (ENS) – Just five days after Myanmar President Thein Sein announced the suspension of the Irrawaddy Myitsone dam construction due to the “will of the ...

NEW YORK, September 25, 2013 — Myanmar's top diplomat urged American companies to "join the gold rush" in his country, opening an Asia Society forum on Myanmar's economic future. "The door for ...

Myanmar’s junta claimed today to have ousted anti-coup rebels from a gold mining hub after a year-long battle, its second declared recapture of a key town in a week. A civil war has consumed Myanmar ...

In Burma, goldworking skills have been passed down over generations. Here's a look at the painstaking process required to produce the fine gold leaf that's sold near temples for devotional gilding.

GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Myanmar won its first two gold medals at the Asian Games in the popular southeast Asian sport of sepaktakraw on Saturday, though the excitement proved too great for a team ...

Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the LA Times. This week, he heads to La Puente to try “Burmese fusion” cuisine at The Golden Owl. Myanmar—or Burma, as it was known until ...