There was a boat trip across the Irrawaddy River to Mingun, where there’s the beautifully ornate, pearl-white Hsinbyume Pagoda, a 90-tonne bell and immense 50-metre-high stupa. Climbing to the top, ...

More than a week after the devastating earthquake in Myanmar, the stench of death still poisons the air in the northern Mingun town, a few miles from the epicentre. A Buddhist monk who goes by the ...