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KYAING TONG, Myanmar, Aug 29 (Reuters) - At night, the gilded Buddha standing imperiously on a hill overlooking Kyaing Tong is one of the few spots of light in the inky blackness of eastern Myanmar's ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Culture: Photos of vivid Buddhist celebration in Thailand that’s a rite of passage for Shan boys
The Poy Sang Long celebration is a vibrant three-day ritual before boys of Myanmar's Shan people enter monastic life for up to one month Dressed in flowers, finery and make-up, scores of boys were ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Culture: Reporting from behind shifting front lines in Myanmar’s civil war
On a typical day, Mai Rupa travels through his native Shan State, in eastern Myanmar, documenting the impact of war. A video journalist with the online news outlet Shwe Phee Myay, he travels to remote ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Culture: What the West Gets Wrong About Myanmar’s Politics of Fear
An intellectual biography of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi argues Myanmar’s tyrants and victims are both bound by fear—an idea Western thinkers have historically overlooked.