Myanmar's junta has kept up a deadly military campaign, including airstrikes and artillery assaults, despite announcing a ...

Maung Tu, 40, a manager at a mining company, purchased a betel nut farm of 2.4 hectares, or 6 acres, near the southern tip of ...

The population was largely Bengali and Myanmaran. In the 18th century the Myanmar kingdom to the east conquered the area but lost it to the British colonial forces a century later. After that most of ...

“This is the right time for India to intervene aggressively in Burma (Myanmar) in support of the NUG and Spring Revolution,” the NUG’s media representative in India Aung Nay Nyo, who is also ...

have sparked folk memories in Myanmar of a family of hairy people who became world-famous in the 19 th century The tale of Shwe-Maong and his descendants not only captured Burma’s royal court but also ...

Night - Clear. Winds from SW to WSW at 6 to 9 mph (9.7 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 79 °F (26.1 °C). Sunny with a high of 96 °F (35.6 °C) and a 51% chance of precipitation. Winds ...

Rohingya refugees walk through a paddy field in Bangladesh in November 2017, after fleeing genocide in Myanmar’s Rakhine state © K M Asad/LightRocket/Getty Images ...

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 ...

CONSIDERING the size and importance of the Burma campaign, it has had very little public attention. Events in Burma have been overshadowed by the climax of the war against Germany and the great ...

Newsweek has created a map showing where in Asia the U.S. has ... of arrest and long-term detention of U.S. nationals. Myanmar (Burma): Due to armed conflict and civil unrest following the ...