Will ethnic armies build on their success and work with Bamar groups to remove the Myanmar military from power, or stay ...

In tlie neighborhood of the river Irawaddy, in the Burmese empire, there are a number of wells, f rom which naphtha, or fluid petroleum, is obtained. The natives employ it raw in their lamps for ...

The ongoing civil war in Myanmar, now spanning over three years, has provided an opportunity for drug cartels to thrive, with Shan State emerging as a major hub for illicit narcotics production. This ...

Bagan in the Dry Zone was the heart of the first great Burmese Empire which reigned from the 9th to the 13th Centuries. Over 3000 pagodas and temples now remain on the vast plain and, unlike Angkor ...

In 1826, after a two-year war, forces of the British East India Company routed the Burmese empire and expelled it from the eastern front. A peace treaty signed in Yandabo, a village by the ...