As Burma continues to fragment,” said USCIRF Vice Chair Soloveichik, “vulnerable religious communities are further exposed to ...

Chinese criminal gangs, taking advantage of the chaos in Burma, a country stunned by a bloody civil war, seized control of Myawaddy by reaching an agreement with ethnic armed groups and local ...

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 ...

Burma Translation Society book projects ... of local administration in operation in ten districts (one third of the country) as an experiment. Vocational training to rehabilitate insurgents.

The military has been a curse on the country ever since Burma got its independence in 1948. The Tatmadaw, as the army is known, got off on the wrong foot from the start. Under British rule ...

By Gwynne Dyer If the Burmese drive General Min Aung Hlaing and his brutal military regime from power, as they seem about to do, the first thing they should do afterwards is take a leaf from Costa ...

Burma, also known as Myanmar, has no foreign enemies threatening it. What it needs is an impartial police force, not a corrupt, cruel army. The military has been a curse on the country ever since ...

Burma’s resistance forces operate with a highly decentralized structure, with numerous ethnic armed groups, each with their own languages, cultures and customs. Initially, it was difficult to convince ...

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 ...