Downtown Yangon’s vibrancy owes much to its mass of street vendors. People in stalls, with carts, or on the ground sell everything from newspapers to fish to betel leaves to shoes. Such businesses are ...

Ear cleaners, roadside plumbers and typewriters for hire: just a sample of the antiquated jobs found on the pavements of Yangon’s Pansodan Street, where old-world businesses still find customers. For ...

Sitting on a tiny stool with a small table in front of him, an old men energetically sews a book's binding. When he realises that our camera is pointed in his direction, he takes a break from his work ...

YANGON, MyanmarYANGON, Myanmar — Graffiti artists in Myanmar are unhappy with a new ban on their handiwork in the country’s biggest city, but expect many to carry on one way or another. Yangon city ...

YANGON, Myanmar—The Premier coffee shop on Bogyoke Aung San Road, a wide boulevard marking the northern limit of this city's downtown, used to spread out plastic tables and chairs beneath a row of ...

YANGON -- In 1987, when Khin Khin San was 13, she began selling bowls of mont ti fish soup under the shade of a tamarind tree in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine, where the rice noodle dish is ...

After five years of brutal military rule, residents of Myanmar’s largest city voted with their feet in the first phase of the junta’s election on Sunday.

YANGON (Reuters) - A television set with wings hovers on a wall in a murky Yangon sidestreet. "This was my first one," says Aung, 33, pointing proudly to an image he spray-painted last year to protest ...

"This was my first one," says Aung, 33, pointing proudly to an image he spray-painted last year to protest media censorship and now duplicated across Myanmar's commercial capital. "Media freedom is a ...