YANGON, Myanmar - The Shwedagon Pagoda ... tower at the center of the temple complex is covered with gold. No one knows how much, but estimates vary from 6 to 60 tons. (Sixty tons of gold would ...

But there is one, which is believed to be the largest gold-covered structure on Earth, and it stands 112 metres tall. The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar is thought to contain between six and ...

As he smooths a gold ... Buddhist pagoda, a merchant pays his ancestors the highest honour – and contributes to a bumper year of donations to re-gild the sacred site. The Shwedagon Pagoda ...

It is covered in gold plates ... speech at the foot of Shwedagon before the country gained independence from Britain in 1948. His daughter Aung San Suu Kyi went to the pagoda to give her landmark ...

Situated on a hilltop in the old capital of Yangon, the 99-metre-high Shwedagon ... pagoda, built 2,600 years ago and said to enshrine eight strands of hair belonging to Buddha. It is covered in ...

AS he smooths a gold plaque on the glistening flank of Myanmar's most prestigious Buddhist pagoda, a merchant pays his ancestors the highest honour - and contributes to a bumper year of donations to ...

Shwedagon Pagoda is covered with hundreds of gold plates and the top of the stupa ... “My Myanmar visit covered significant ground in giving a much needed impetus to India—Myanmar relations ...