YANGON: Myanma Railways (MR) has announced that the No.5 Up and No.6 Down Yangon–Mandalay express trains began operating on ...

YANGON, Myanmar -- To ride Yangon’s charmingly decrepit Circle Line train is to ride through history. Built more than 60 years ago to connect rural suburbs and townships to the city’s commercial heart ...

Nyein Sanda works in an office not much larger than a closet in the central train station in Yangon, Myanmar. His ticket booth on platform 7 hosts a constant stream of tourists looking to ride the ...

It's not that I'm plagued by a sense of danger, yet somehow it's always there; that inherent sense that if I'd been doing this only a few years ago, I would likely have been tossed in jail or even ...

YANGON, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar planned to implement a sky train project in the commercial city of Yangon starting 2020, according to the Ministry of Transport and Communications Monday. The over 1 ...

Train used to be shunned — now it’s the only relief in car-clogged city YANGON: Trains chug around Yangon’s circular railway at a stately pace barely faster than a brisk walk, but this creaking relic ...

However, this overnight train ride from Bagan to Yangon in Burma turned out to be memorable for all the wrong reasons. Vanessa Chiasson, who has ventured around the world and writes at ...