YANGON, Myanmar - The Shwedagon Pagoda ... An Englishman visiting the pagoda in 1586 called it "the fairest place, as I suppose, that is in all the world." Every inch of the 326-foot-high bell ...

Aung San gave a historic 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 speech ...

The Shwedagon Pagoda, situated on Singuttara Hill in the center of Yangon (Rangoon), is the most sacred Buddhist stupa in Myanmar and one of the most important religious reliquary monuments in the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today wrapped up his Myanmar trip with visits to the 'mazar' of last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and the 2,500-year-old Shwedagon pagoda, besides performing a ...

YANGON, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's Shwedagon Pagoda attracted 445,000 foreign visitors in the first nine months of this year, according to the pagoda's Board of Trustee on Saturday. Thailand ...

YANGON (Reuters) - Defying the threat of contracting coronavirus and a citywide lockdown, Myanmar taxi driver Ko Naing, 50, still travels each day to pray outside the sacred Shwedagon Pagoda in Ya ...

The Global Vipassana Pagoda is the biggest of its kind in India. It is the largest unsupported stone-made dome in the world ... was built to replicate the Shwedagon Pagoda of Yangon in Myanmar.