Body modders look to indigenous tribes from around...  ...bodies for centuries.Kayan women in Thailand and Burma use rings to elongate their necks, a sign of beau...

Capital city relocation isn't as uncommon as you'd think, but when a country chooses to relocate the capital to what many have described as a "ghost town" it makes you wonder what's really going on.In 2006 the government...

According to legend, King Dhammazedi, the ruler of...  ...Dhammazedi, the ruler of a nation in what is now Burma , built the largest bell in the world in 1484. The...

(Photo: Jason Eppink)According to legend, the Budd...  ...n hair. This is the Kyaiktiyo Balancing Pagoda in Burma . The entire rock and shrine is painted with gold....

Taung Kalat is a Buddhist monastery build on top o...  ...monastery build on top of a tall volcanic plug in Burma . Although monks no longer live there, the site is...

In 2010, scientists announced the discovery of...  ...a camera trap in the mountains of Kachin state in Burma . Researchers are especially excited to see that t...

You've probably seen the 1957 move The Bridge On t...  ...ized. The real history of how the railway between Burma and China was built, including the bridge, is a h...

Early this year, scientists heard of a new and different monkey in the Kachin state of Myanmar. When they arrived at the site, they found the monkey had been "discovered" by the hunters who killed it. It was eaten soon a...

In central Burma there is a remarkable monastery, Taung Kalat, tha...

A very unusual species of fish with fangs made of...  ...made of bone has been found in only one stream in Burma . Researchers from London's Natural History Museu...