Yangmingshan National Park officials said that a faulty battery in an air quality sensor was the likely culprit of a fire on the mountain on Monday. The fire burned for several hours and scorched ...

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Dressed in flowers, finery and makeup, scores of boys were paraded around a temple in Thailand after having their heads shaved -- a symbolic start to a centuries-old Shan monkhood ordination.

The Buddhist celebration is unique to the Shan people of northeastern Myanmar, hundreds of thousands of whom have moved to Thailand during their country's decades of dictatorship and turmoil.

It's one of the park's most popular hikes and starts tame with the one-mile Riverside Walk, a wheelchair-accessible hike. After that, hikers will get wet since the trail disappears into the Virgin ...

Dressed in flowers, finery and makeup, scores of boys were paraded around a temple in Thailand after having their heads shaved -- a symbolic start to a centuries-old Shan monkhood ordination. The ...