Heckler & Koch firearms have played an unheralded and destructive role in the civil wars that have consumed the country since its independence. History suggests that resistance will not end when the ...

About two years ago, Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, hoping to weld the neutralist nations into a dynamic third force in international politics, made state visits to India and Burma. His reception here ...

NEW YORK (NEWS10) — Nearly two years have passed since the military coup in Myanmar. Burmese civilian forces continue to fight against the rule of Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and his junta. While ...

With international relief efforts barely touching down in cyclone-devastated Myanmar, campus experts say the disaster in that Southeast Asian country is both a natural and man-made one. Kyaw Tha Paw U ...

Just a few years ago, Myanmar (also called Burma) was widely seen as an international success story. In March 2011, after half a century of military rule, a quasi-civilian government led by the former ...

A trip down the 1970s hippie-trail led the American author to a lifelong relationship with the country and its people. American author Melody Mociulski spent 13 years of her retirement working in ...

Join historian, former diplomat and Presidential advisor Thant Myint-U for an insider’s diagnosis of recent and ongoing challenges to Burma’s fragile democracy. Warning of the possible collapse of ...

Thant Myint-U has titled his reflective and illuminating new book “The Hidden History of Burma,” even though he gently suggests that the country’s past wasn’t so much obscured as it was hiding in ...

Burma is a third-world country with a long history of left-wing politics dating back to the colonial era. Unlike the rest of the world, politics in Burma was totally a battle between left-wing groups.

In the shadow of a pagoda and a mosque, not long after dawn in Rangoon, a line of Burmese, their bodies pressed together so tightly that sweat mingled and sarongs converged, shuffled forward to cast ...

Myanmar's jade industry is worth far more than previously thought and could be "the biggest natural resource heist in modern history," according to a new report published Friday. The report, the ...