It may look easy, though it’s not. Buddhist prostration involves folding giraffe-like down onto your knees and — after a face-down inclination — coming up again. Next to me, a monk was going at it ...

The rare ritual was performed for almost two kilometres, from the Jogye order headquarters to the presidential residence. Monks want to reopen the case of Than Zaw Htay, who fell during a raid by the ...