Bird-shaped hot air balloons released during the Tazaungdaing Lighting Festival in Taunggyi in Myanmar's northeastern Shan State Participants prepare candles as they set up a hot air balloon ...

A Myanmar military strike on a festival event and protest killed 40 people, including children, an attendee, and a local committee member said on Oct. 7. Myanmar has been reeling from civil war since ...

Goat, hippo and duck-shaped hot air balloons floated in clear blue skies over war-ravaged Myanmar this week in a rare opportunity for escapism. Tens of thousands of people have been killed since the ...