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 ...

This article is part of a package produced by a group of final-year undergraduates from Nanyang Technological University's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, for the programme Going ...

Lethwei, Myanmar’s national sport, is one of the most brutal striking styles in the world—allowing bare knuckle punches, elbows, kicks, knees and headbutts. Traditionally, the fights are 5 rounds, and ...

YANGON: The young men - some just boys - are lean and muscular. Sweat drips off them as they jostle and jab in the fading light. They cast shadows on the rough bitumen, which acts as their training ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the old days, droves of spectators gathered in communal theatres around rural Myanmar to witness just one thing – Lethwei, the ...

Kickboxing superstar Takeru Segawa is willing to put his career and reputation on the line just to capture a decisive finish against ONE up-and-comer Thant Zin this week. 'The Natural Born Crusher' is ...

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