During a 10-day women’s running retreat in the Himalayan kingdom, author and marathoner Sarah Gearhart learns that intention ...

Show more Show less The massive March 28 quake damaged thousands of monasteries and pagodas in Myanmar Three quarters ... a 49-year-old monk. "The loss of historic heritage is breaking our hearts." ...

In what would be known as a rare occasion, clergy from all four religions of the country got together on Tuesday (13) at the ...

The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...

Even after the Buddha left home, he continued to honour two mother figures – his biological mother, Maya, and his foster ...

Myanmar’s military rulers have spent the past ... jailing opponents and forcing young men and women to join the army. The junta is headed by a widely reviled army chief who overthrew the ...

National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Jaime Santiago on Friday said that authorities have positively identified four Filipino fatalities in the magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar. “‘Yung ...

Fourteen young nuns died when Thutaythaka Nunnery collapsed. A month later, their abbess still waits beside the rubble ...

This Asia News Network special report examines why the earthquake led to so much devastation, the current situation in quake-hit areas, and why earthquake preparedness is crucial.