A massive fire has destroyed an iconic luxury hotel in the city of Yangon in Myanmar, killing one person ... at the Kandawgyi Palace. The hotel, which was largely made out of teak and built ...

The blast occurred at the consulate office in central Mandalay, south of the sprawling Royal Palace, around 7pm local time on ...

Then India, Tibet and the Potala Palace, Burma and the Burma Road, and, of course, the Khmer Empire and Cambodia. These places had all been hidden from my view by my Philadelphia suburban education.