Win Myint was serving an eight-year prison sentence in Taungoo in Myanmar’s Bago region. Myanmar’s meteorological department said Naypyitaw saw temperatures of 39 degrees Celsius (102.2 ...

Caught between ethnic offensives in the east and west, the regime now faces a growing threat at its industrial-military core.

There was mounting tension between the Buddhist and Muslim communities in Taungoo for weeks before it erupted into violence in the middle of May 2001. The destruction of the Buddhist images in ...

Observed at 15:30, Thursday 13 March BBC Weather in association with MeteoGroup, external All times are Myanmar Time (Asia/Rangoon, GMT+6:30) unless otherwise stated.