A new book highlights the role that the country’s rail network has played in the making – and unmaking – of a conflict-torn country. A gate lies across the tracks at the Gokteik viaduct in Myanmar’s ...
The country’s prospects of democracy and development “have been repeatedly thwarted by a predatory military and an indifferent international community.” More than two years after Myanmar’s military ...
August 8 is a date etched in blood. On this day in 1988, Myanmar’s military turned its guns on thousands of peaceful protesters in what is now remembered as the 8888 uprising. Although it was by no ...
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.
The massive March 28 quake damaged thousands of monasteries and pagodas in Myanmar - Copyright AFP Sai Aung MAIN The massive March 28 quake damaged thousands of ...