Armed police secure the compound of Ekayana Buddhist Centre in Jakarta in the early morning of Aug. 5, 2013, hours after a bombing attack hit the temple in the evening of Aug. 4ROMEO GACAD / AFP / ...

Hillary Clinton has clocked hundreds of thousands of miles as Secretary of State and First Lady--and met most of the globe's political luminaries along the way. But on Thursday, Clinton logged a pair ...

MANDALAY, Myanmar As the sun began to set behind the hills on the far side of Mandalay, the valley below turned a dusty red. The small trash fires burning constantly along the roadsides contributed to ...

RANGOON, Burma — More than 10,000 Buddhist monks and nuns rallied recently to celebrate Burma's restrictive new race and religion laws, packing themselves into an indoor soccer stadium to cheer and ...

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Utica's Burmese community has mobilized to try and help monks in their native country who have been killed, beaten or held captive as they protest the policies of the military regime that governs the ...

It’s not quite 5 a.m. as I push through the doors of the hotel and into the pre-dawn darkness of Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon. I am reminded by the nativity scene on the lawn in front of the ...

Sunrise in Bagan, Myanmar, home to thousands of temples, pagodas and monasteries built from the 9th to 13th centuries CE. (jmhullot/Flickr) Writing from Bagan, Myanmar, Times correspondent Jane Perlez ...