They used to sit at the side of ancient Burmese royalty and guard the entrance to temples and pagodas. But in modern-day Myanmar, as Burma is now known, the country’s most famous animal is ...

A Hong Kong snake handler captured a 2.5-metre (8.2-foot) long python that swallowed a stray cat near a village house ... to the scene and captured the Burmese python, which was placed in a ...