For about 10 minutes, the fireworks breathtakingly illuminated the night sky, marking the largest celebration of the Thadingyut Festival in Yangon on this full moon night. Thousands gathered -- a ...

People visit the Shwedagon Pagoda during the Myanmar's traditional Thadingyut lantern festival in Yangon, Myanmar, Oct. 24, 2018. The Thadingyut lantern festival is held on the full moon day of the ...

Thousands of Buddhist devotees thronged Myanmar's Shwedagon Pagoda to mark the full moon of the Thadingyut festival on Sunday, some offering prayers for a country plunged into turmoil by last year ...