Pro-democracy protesters hold a flash mob rally to protest against Myanmar’s military-installed government, at Kyauktada township in Yangon, Myanmar on December 20, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/File In late ...

The Burmese poet Maung Saungkha does not have a tattoo of Myanmar’s President on his penis. At least, that is what he has told everyone who has asked him recently. He may soon have to prove it in ...

It’s a moody afternoon in late spring, and Maung Saungkha, the famous “penis poet” of Burma, is in a hurry to stay ahead of the next downpour. After a full morning of punishing rain that feels like we ...

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been caught on camera in Myanmar reciting a colonial poem before being stopped by an ambassador. Mr Johnson began quoting the opening lines of Mandalay during a ...

A young Burmese poet has gone on the run after joking on Facebook that he had a picture of the president tattooed on his penis. Maung Saungkha, a 23-year-old poet from Myanmar's capital Yangon, told ...

Britain’s ambassador to Myanmar was forced to interrupt Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson earlier this year as he tried to recite a nostalgic colonial poem by Rudyard Kipling in public during a visit to ...

A Myanmar love poem will remain on the national curriculum after the government’s plans to scrap it over fears it promoted smoking sparked widespread public anger. Present of a Cheroot, composed by ...

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar. (File) London: Britain's ambassador to Myanmar was forced to interrupt Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson earlier this year as ...

Britain’s foreign secretary has been accused of “incredible insensitivity” after it emerged he recited part of a colonial-era Rudyard Kipling poem in front of local dignitaries while on an official ...

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been caught on camera in Myanmar reciting a colonial poem before being stopped by an ambassador. Mr Johnson began quoting the opening lines of Mandalay during a ...