At dawn, the fish markets of Yangon are a chaotic hive of activity as workers sort through vast piles of fresh supplies ...

Statues of independence hero Aung San are quietly disappearing across Myanmar in a contest over his legacy as father of both ...

Look around you. Ghosts of the past linger everywhere. Burma is a time capsule of British colonial treasures, the most you will find in Southeast Asia. Behold the majestic, crumbling buildings in ...

At a charming Kayan restaurant overlooking Yangon’s Pazundaung Creek, the waiter uses a cleaver to crack open a clay mound. He extracts a bamboo-wrapped chicken, dripping in its own juices. It’s been ...

Yangon, in Myanmar, has lost hundreds of colonial buildings to rapid development over the past two decades. A handful of heritage hotels -- think teak mansions and grand colonial facades -- are ...

The first thing you notice when you land in Yangon, Myanmar’s former capital and largest city, is the traffic. Just a few years ago, these streets were mostly empty except for bicycles and a few ...

It is 4:30 p.m. in Yangon. The searing heat has subsided just enough to make it feasible to exercise outside. I exit my third-story downtown apartment into a staircase cloaked in darkness. With no ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As life in Yangon settles into a surreal “new normal”, a savage military campaign against dissent is feeding ...