Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit to Myanmar, also known as Burma, has again focused attention on what to call that nation. For... Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit to ...

More than 5,000 people have fled from eastern Burma into Thailand in recent days as fighting between Burma's army and armed resistance groups has intensified in the border area, Thai media and ...

The brutal takeover by the military, renews the debate about how the country should be addressed, Burma or Myanmar. In the past, the country’s electoral commission had told Aung San Suu Kyi to stop ...

This week, the military upended years of quasi-democratic rule in Myanmar, with soldiers taking control of the country in a carefully orchestrated coup. The military said the seizure of power was ...

Mizzima said media groups will focus on the urgent need to underscore access to information as a cornerstone of a free and democratic society. This statement was originally published on ...

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Wednesday that more than 200,000 refugees have fled Burma to his country and urgently called for new ways to persuade Burma's ruling generals to resolve the ...

Naypyitaw, Myanmar — Myanmar's military-run television network announced on Monday that the military had taken control of the country for one year, confirming that days of mounting concern over a ...

To the saleswomen at a clothing shop here, the arrival of democracy means more customers looking to buy tight skirts and sleeveless tops, a sharp departure from the sarongs still ubiquitous in most of ...

Living under the thumb of a brutal junta, the average Burmese hardly leads an easy life. But the plight of the country’s ethnic minorities, many of whom once waged long and bloody insurgencies against ...

The people of Burma take omens seriously. For centuries, the paths of planets and vagaries of weather have been scrutinized by astrologers, who divine a relationship between celestial irregularities ...

This week, the military upended years of quasi-democratic rule in Myanmar, with soldiers taking control of the country in a carefully orchestrated coup. The military said the seizure of power was ...