In Burma we have been singularly fortunate in ... were sent on a tour of duty to the provinces would keep one wife up-country and one in town. Now one seldom hears of such things on that level ...

It’s 75 years since Myanmar – or Burma, as it was – became independent of Britain after a century of colonial rule, so it’s just the time for this exhibition at the British Museum.

In 1989 the English name of the country was changed from Burma to Myanmar by the ruling State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC, now called the State Peace and Development Council ...

Since 1991, Bangladesh has been the main country of refuge for members of the Muslim Rohingya minority in Burma's Arakan State, many thousands of whom have fled gross human rights violations ...

The Indians, our neighbors to the west, have been trading and settling in Burma for centuries, attracted by the opportunities of our fertile, uncrowded country. The British used cheap Indian labor ...

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Award recipients are also noted in the Commencement program. In 1858, Maung Shaw Loo left his home country of Burma to study at the University at Lewisburg — becoming the first Burmese person to ...

The EU is one of the major providers of humanitarian aid in Burma (and France is the second-largest net contributor to the EU budget). During his visit to Burma on May 15, European Commissioner for ...