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BAGAN, Mandalay Division — At dawn, the elderly woman prepares to go to work. Hers has been a lifelong career, but she wishes it wasn’t so. [1]
BAGAN, Mandalay Division — With 200,000 tourists visiting in 2013, a 20 percent jump from the year before, according to Burmese Tourism Ministry statistics, it should be boom time for Bagan’s lacquerware businesses. [2]
RANGOON — A possible ban on temple climbing in Burma’s ancient capital Bagan is rumored as State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi denounced the controversial activity at the tourist hot spot during her visit this week, suggesting that alternative viewi... [3]
Heavy rains and flooding during the recent rainy season caused damage to about 1,900 pagodas at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Bagan, and many of the ancient Buddhist temples are now at risk of collapse, an archaeologist told Radio Free Asia. [4]
While mandatory military service preoccupies much of the population, Myanmar’s junta is inviting public donations for restoration work in the World Heritage temple city of Bagan in central Myanmar. [5]
BAGAN, Mandalay Division — At dawn, the elderly woman prepares to go to work. Hers has been a lifelong career, but she wishes it wasn’t so.
BAGAN, Mandalay Division — With 200,000 tourists visiting in 2013, a 20 percent jump from the year before, according to Burmese Tourism Ministry statistics, it should be boom time for Bagan’s lacquerware businesses.
RANGOON — A possible ban on temple climbing in Burma’s ancient capital Bagan is rumored as State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi denounced the controversial activity at the tourist hot spot during her visit this week, suggesting that alternative viewi
Heavy rains and flooding during the recent rainy season caused damage to about 1,900 pagodas at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Bagan, and many of the ancient Buddhist temples are now at risk of collapse, an archaeologist told Radio Free Asia.
While mandatory military service preoccupies much of the population, Myanmar’s junta is inviting public donations for restoration work in the World Heritage temple city of Bagan in central Myanmar.
BAGAN — “Please do not record my voice or take photos of me. If they catch me I could be arrested and fined.
International partners pledged financial and technical support in the restoration of central Burma’s quake-hit ancient Bagan pagodas, during a two-day international conference on the renovations, from Feb 15-16.
Authorities in charge of the Bagan temple complex said they have banned coaches and other heavy vehicles from passing through the Tharapa Gate in order to protect the ancient, vulnerable structure.
MANDALAY — The Bagan branch of the Department of Archaeology, National Museum and Library said the renovation of earthquake-hit temples and pagodas in the Bagan archaeological zone of central Myanmar will take more time than expected to complete.
MANDALAY—Seeking divine blessings, Myanmar military commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and his wife on Thursday placed the “Hti” umbrella atop Bagan’s ancient Htilominlo Temple, following in the footsteps of some of Myanmar’s most powe