It’s been more than 20 years since he fought in a sandpit, but Lone Chaw still recalls the dusty village lots of his youth, unmarked except for footprints stained by sweat and blood. Stamping about in ...

YANGON: Myanmar will hold a traditional boxing competition at the Theinbyu Stadium in Yangon on June 22 to mark the International Olympic Day, an official from the Myanmar Lethwei Federation said on ...

A five-day traditional Lethwei tournament attracts a crowd of more than 1,000 people to watch the end of the tournament in Hlaingbwe township in Karen state. Among the winners of the day, 22-year-old ...

A boxing-fan tycoon, a venerated monk and the army lured some of Myanmar's top fighters to Rakhine state this week in an attempt to show normality is returning after a military crackdown drove 700,000 ...