As a "diplomatic courtesy," the U.S. government "has begun to allow limited use of the name Myanmar" to describe the former pariah state of Burma as it inches closer toward democracy, White House ...

Myanmar has been a textbook case of the tragedies of socialism. While people are familiar with Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung ...

Burma, which its military junta chooses to call Myanmar, has dropped off the map for most Westerners. Now several outstanding books have shed some light on that reclusive country. Steinberg, a veteran ...

A state of emergency has been declared in Meikhtila, Burma following religious riots and violence between the Muslim and Buddhist poputlation in the country.

Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel peace laureate and chair of the opposition National League for Democracy party in Burma, spoke Tuesday by telephone about her recent trip to China, elections scheduled for ...

Many of these groups, such as the Karen, the Shan, the Mon and the Kachin, have been in a state of rebellion off and on against the central government since Burma gained independence in 1948.

The Kengtung diocese is in the Shan state of Burma, also known as Myanmar, and is heavily affected by the ongoing civil war. A protest of the coup d'etat in Hpa-An, the capital of Karen State ...

Burma military chief extends state of emergency until 2023. August 2, 2021 at 1:00 a.m. by Burma military chief extends state of emergency until 2023 ...

Burma's president declared a state of emergency Sunday night for a riot-hit western state, wracked by deadly sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims. Thein Sein warned in a televised ...

They were married in 1953 and when they returned to his homeland of Burma, she discovered–for the first time–that her husband was the prince of the Hsipaw state of the Shan region of the country.