Tag: culture

Have you ever wondered why Myanmar is so strict about footwear in pagodas, temples and surrounding compounds, especially when its neighbors Thailand and Laos only require visitors to remove their shoes inside...

Over the past few days, a Vimeo video about a mix of Myanmar's countryside and city-landscape featuring the most scenic places of the country went fervid on the its most engaging social...

For the past 18 months architects, engineers, technicians and hundreds of craftsmen have renovated the old Goethe Villa on Kabar Aye Pagoda Road from the ground up and have added three new buildings housing...

Susan Bailey spends a day visiting nunneries around Mandalay to gain an insight into the lives of Myanmar’s female monastics. Every day at 10.30am, rows of perfectly aligned slippers fill a leafy courtyard in Sagaing....

Iris Alonso takes a tour of the Secretariat, an iconic structure set for transformation into a cultural hub. Photos by Myanmore. At 4.20am on January 4, 1948, a time astrologers judged to be auspicious, the...

The restoration of one of the most important buildings in Myanmar, The Secretariat, will see one of the largest Colonial buildings in Southeast Asia restored to its former glory and adaptively re-used as a...

In a city full of non-descript buildings, Shwe Waa is hard to miss. Its forest green exterior, gilded bamboo (its moniker means ‘Gold Bamboo’) and palm-fringed roof terrace make a bold statement amongst a...

By: Susan Bailey Young Chan Myae looks up with a big smile on his face, proudly displaying a bar of soap to the camera as if it is a work of art. But it’s not...

Story/Photo: Sondang Grace Sirait The traditional Myanmar Buddhist ritual of lighting oil lamps at pagodas in the evening took on new meaning on Saturday, 25 March 2017, as hundreds of people gathered at the Shwedagon...

The Night of Magic Sounds was performed in the courtyard of the SAVOY Hotel Yangon by the pool on 16th of March, created by Sigune von Osten. Around 17 artists and musicians with Myanmar traditional instruments,...