A major 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck Myanmar, causing damage and casualties across the country and in neighbouring Thailand. The quake happened in central Myanmar at a depth of 6.2 miles just ...

The Chinese started building the last, and most difficult, link in the Burma road in December 1937. It is now completed. It follows the old trail which Marco Polo traveled when he visited the Middle ...

As our map shows ... was originally called Burma. It was changed by the country’s national government from the Union of Burma to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar in 1989.