American foreign policy complicates an already difficult situation for those reporting on the civil war in Myanmar.

Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing offered his country advice on civic participation as he voted in a general election on ...

The writing of a memoir — especially one subtitled “A True Love Story” — presents an inherent challenge: the author’s self-revelation risks devolving into rank confession and undermining the larger ...

Laurel Conran filled a two-inch binder with vocabulary sheets for a class she offers Burmese refugees who work in a Howard County warehouse. The first lesson was on basic introductions; the second, on ...

Volunteers look for survivors near a building damaged in the magnitude 7.7 earthquake on March 28, 2025, in Naypyidaw, Myanmar. (Aung Shine Oo / Associated Press) Weak building codes and years of ...

It is not part of the Capital Fringe Festival, but "Sandaya: Burmese Lessons" would fit right in. The multimedia, cross-cultural piece at the Atlas Performing Arts Center qualifies as more of a ...

"Over that vast time, the rough edges and bends in the fault have been ground down," first author Eric Lindsey, a ...

'Good travel is like good reading," observes Canadian writer Karen Connelly in "Burmese Lessons: A True Love Story" (Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday, $27.95). "You go inside a new world and you cannot resist ...

It's been a year and a half since the military in Myanmar launched a coup, deposed the democratically elected government and restored a dictatorship. And recently, an ominous move towards further ...

As the People's Republic of China approaches the 60th anniversary of its founding, Beijing has been unpleasantly surprised by the sudden outbreak of unrest on its long border with Burma. It's a lesson ...

Weak building codes and years of government unrest appear to have contributed to the devastation from the magnitude 7.7 Myanmar earthquake, a leading seismic safety expert in the region said. The ...