The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar is thought to contain between six and 60 tonnes of gold, according to Fodor's Travel Guide. The reason the exact figure is unknown is because gold has been ...

Myanmar's ruling junta has said more ... other Thai users also claimed the video shows the revered Shwedagon pagoda that dominates Yangon's skyline but an AFP journalist saw the site on April ...

The Shwedagon Pagoda is the most sacred site in Burma. Its origins can be traced back to the first millennium, when a king was inspired by a legend involving eight strands of Buddha's hair.

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 ...

Sing, please," he says, as they flick the karaoke machine to a Myanmar folk song they ... located near Yangon’s landmark Shwedagon Pagoda, one of the Buddhist country’s holiest shrines.

Myanmar is trying to come to terms with ... It is the country's second most important shrine, after the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. Spiritual desolation: Buddhist monks look at a destroyed temple ...