YANGON (AFP) - Police in southern Myanmar were on Monday (June 5) hunting six men who broke out of jail using their longyi, a type of local sarong, as ropes to climb down from the roof. The group have ...

Protesters are stringing up women's clothing on lines across the streets of Myanmar to utilise a superstition in their favour. Several photographs from multiple protest sites in Myanmar have made ...

Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in court on Friday wearing a white top and a brown wraparound longyi that is the typical uniform for prisoners in the Southeast Asian country, a ...

Anti-coup protesters in Myanmar have been stringing up women’s clothes across roads to slow down the advance of the army and police. In the southeast Asian country, it is bad luck for men to walk ...

'We have the traditional belief that if we pass underneath a longyi, we might lose our luck,' says one protester Protesters in Myanmar have taken to stringing up women’s clothing on lines across the ...

The Myanmar military fears menstrual blood. The troops believe that passing under clothing that has touched women’s private parts will sap hpoun — their spiritual energy — to destroy their luck, ...

The sartorial choices of Myanmar’s men and women quickly catch the eye of any visitor to this tropical Southeast Asian country. Most girls and women, irrespective of age, adorn their cheeks with a ...

YANGON: Police in southern Myanmar were on Monday hunting six men who broke out of jail using their longyi, a type of local sarong, as ropes to climb down from the roof. The group have been on the run ...

Dec 17 (Reuters) - Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in court on Friday wearing a white top and a brown wraparound longyi that is the typical uniform for prisoners in the Southeast ...

YANGON — Police in southern Myanmar were on Monday (June 5) hunting six men who broke out of jail using their longyi, a type of local sarong, as ropes to climb down from the roof. The group have been ...