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 ...
Walter Lohman is director of the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation. To achieve American aims in Burma, a policy is needed that clearly lays out the benchmarks of reform and consequences ...
At a tiny desk in his Canoga Park home, over a week after a military coup in his native country, Thakhin Kai Bwor was putting together the latest edition of the Myanmar Gazette. In one dispatch, ...
For several years now, the emails have shown up within hours — sometimes within minutes — after NPR posts or broadcasts news about one Southeast Asian nation. They would say something such as this: We ...
Language Log notes that Apple's Dictionary program (v. 1.02 running in Tiger) gave an interesting pronunciation for "Myanmar:" It's pronounced "Burma." Graham Webster Formerly a journalist and ...
The U.S Senate on Thursday passed military spending authorization legislation that included a newly amended version of the BURMA Act - the Burma Unified Through Rigorous Military Accountability Act of ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Kaythari Maw, 21, a 2017 alumna of Curtis High School and 2021 graduate of Barnard College at Columbia University, is doing great things. Currently a senior at Barnard College ...