Their mothers view things differently: The coils are passports to a better way of life and some profit for the Padaung tribe. Once a tradition of this ethnic minority group from neighboring Burma ...

So I was startled when a well-respected trekking company in northern Thailand refused my request to travel to a nearby village of a tribe called the Padaung. “Please do not support this violatio ...

So I was startled when a well-respected trekking company in northern Thailand flat-out refused my request to travel to a nearby village of a tribe called the Padaung. "PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT THIS ...

So I was startled when a well-respected trekking company in northern Thailand refused my request to travel to a nearby village of a tribe called the Padaung. “PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT THIS VIOLATIO ...

It is Ma Da. Ma Da belongs to the Padaung hill-tribe, whose female members are better known as ‘long necks’ or ‘giraffe women’. She is young, witty and beautiful. As Padaung custom ...

This is the improbable and riveting tale of a Padaung hill tribesman who left his idyllic backwater to study in Mandalay and found himself caught up in the tumultuous political events of the day.

The Padaung women start wearing brass coils around their necks at a very young age, increasing the number of rings as they get older. Yahoo Travel Last month, during my trip to Myanmar ...

Khoo Thwe's story begins among the dragon-filled creation myths of his tribe, the Padaung. The tribe is famous for its long-necked "giraffe women," who wear golden rings around their necks.

When Khun Lwici, the secretary of a literary and cultural committee set up by Myanmar’s Kayan ethnic group, came across a movie called Aung Padin Inn Padaung, he was incensed. In the movie ...

With all respect to the Padaung people of remotest Burma, the spit-and-spell routine didn’t do much good. Poverty, dictatorship, sickness, war: Khoo Thwe had to overcome all manner of evils ...