As Burma heads to historic elections, Bill Whitaker reports on the country's democratic movement and the woman most responsible for it, Aung San Suu Kyi (Original air date: Oct. 25, 2015 ...

But where exactly did the coup happen? Was it in Myanmar, as the the country is officially called? Or was it in Burma, the name Washington continues to use? The answer is complicated. Because when ...

In official documents issued by the Biden administration, the country with beaches on the Andaman Sea is Burma. And whenever the country is in the news, the question of what’s in a name returns.

Award recipients are also noted in the Commencement program. In 1858, Maung Shaw Loo left his home country of Burma to study at the University at Lewisburg — becoming the first Burmese person to ...

On the stump, she speaks of freedom, hope and an honest government for Burma’s 51 million people, many of whom remain mired in poverty five years after the country’s military junta began the ...

In less than five years, Burma* has undergone widespread change. In November 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest, following victory for the military government-backed Union ...

Burma’s uneven reform process continued in 2013 with notable improvements in some sectors, but serious problems continuing throughout the country. Basic freedoms of assembly and association ...

What led to this rare case of dual identity? And what name should we use for the Southeast Asian country? Myanmar (Burma) is the largest country in Mainland Southeast Asia, and has a population of ...

Since 1999 and until today, Burma has been designated by the State Department as a “country of particular concern” (CPC) for engaging in “severe violations of religious freedom.”[ ...

Burma has been at war ever since independence ... Arakan was one of the few corners of the country where the NLD did poorly in the election – beaten by Arakanese nationalists who are the ...

(1) THE need for a treatise on the geology of Burma has been felt for many years, not only by those interested particularly in that country, but also by geologists who study the earth's crust on ...