YANGON, Myanmar -- In helping others, Myanmar's saffron-robed Buddhist monks have helped themselves. The monks' critical role in providing relief after Cyclone Nargis has galvanized their ranks and ...

The political implications of ultra-nationalist Buddhist monks and ideologies in Myanmar received much attention in the years before the 2021 military takeover. As Myanmar has turned more violent ...

Myanmar Thursday said it would look into incendiary comments by the country's most notorious hardline monk who branded a UN envoy a "whore" after strong condemnation from the United Nation's, but ...

A funeral cortege of the late monk Bhaddanta Munindarbhivamsa moves in a street in Bago, Myanmar, Thursday, June 27, 2024. Hundreds of people attended the funeral on Thursday of a senior monk who was ...

Dec 8 (Reuters) - In a monastery in central Myanmar, a Buddhist monk, Wathawa, rallies his militia with a cry: "What's our spirit like?" "The spirit of iron!" shout a group of rifle-bearing men, ...

YANGON, Myanmar -- Thousands of Buddhist monks and pro-democracy activists marched toward the center of Yangon on Wednesday in defiance of the military government's ban on public assembly. The march ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s government apologized for a violent crackdown on Buddhist monks and other foes of a copper mine in northwest Myanmar, which was the biggest use of force against ...

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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Buddhist monks across Myanmar peacefully demonstrated Wednesday to demand a formal apology from the government for its recent crackdown on protesters at a copper mine that ...

MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) – A Myanmar court sentenced seven Muslims to prison Tuesday _ one of them to a life term _ in the killing of a Buddhist monk amid deadly sectarian violence that was ...

Dec 8 (Reuters) - In a monastery in central Myanmar, a Buddhist monk, Wathawa, rallies his militia with a cry: "What's our spirit like?" "The spirit of iron!" shout a group of rifle-bearing men, ...