Government parties consider Bagan residents’ suggestions to the draft heritage law
The Archaeology, National Museum and Library Department will meet with MPs from Bagan and Nay Pyi Taw, and the Attorney-General, ...
Tag: Bagan (site)
Unesco World Heritage site in the Mandalay region of central Myanmar. It was the seat of the Bagan empire from the 11th-13th centuries. Burmese: ပုဂံ
Bagan temples: 224 to finish repairs before Thingyan, and 50 more after
The Myanmar Department of Archaeology and National Museum reports the upcoming completion of repairs 224 temples in Bagan damaged by ...
Hotels in Bagan’s protected zone in limbo
The Myanmar government is deciding between granting special exemptions or demolishing some 25 hotels that have been illegally built in ...
Bagan quake roundup
On August 24, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit central Myanmar, which affected over 400 of the temples in Bagan causing ...
Hotel developments in Bagan on hold
The Myanmar Department of Archaeology reports that a number of hotel developments around and near the Bagan temples are on ...
Bagan ‘limbo’ hotels given 10 years to move
A large problem of the management of the Bagan temple heritage landscape is the number of hotels situated very near ...
Bagan residents seek greater share of ticket sales for preservation
Bagan residents are seeking a greater portion of ticket revenues to help with the preservation of the monuments - the ...
The short-lived Bagan climbing ban
A small clash last week between the Ministry of Culture and the tourism industry in Myanmar when the former abruptly ...
Emergency restoration works to Bagan near completion
Repairs to pagodas damaged by storms last year in Bagan will soon be completed, due to a restoration project funded ...
Myanmar begins inventorying Bagan temples – and starting to find new ones already
An inventory of the pagodas in Bagan is underway as part of its bid to be listed as a world ...
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