Myanmar shares borders with China, India, Laos, Bangladesh and Thailand. The United States officially still calls the country Burma. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Myanmar voted on Sunday in its first election in 20 years, a scripted poll that will end nearly five decades of military rule in one of Southeast Asia's biggest and most ethnically ...

BANGKOK — A unilateral partial ceasefire to facilitate earthquake relief efforts was announced on Saturday by Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government, which coordinates the popular struggle against ...

EARLIER this month, in a column in a state-owned newspaper entitled “The Truth behind the Northern Rakhine Issue”, a retired general decided to rebut the “absolute absurdities” he had read in the ...

Here’s a look at Myanmar, a country in southeast Asia formerly known as Burma. Myanmar shares borders with China, India, Laos, Bangladesh and Thailand. The United States officially still calls the ...

(Reuters) - Myanmar is gearing up for its first election in 20 years to end nearly five decades of military rule in one of Southeast Asia's biggest and most ethnically diverse countries. Here are some ...

(CNN) — Here's a look at Myanmar, a country in southeast Asia formerly known as Burma. About Myanmar: (from the CIA World Factbook) Area: 676,578 sq km (slightly smaller than Texas) Population: 55,123 ...

Ethnic Groups: Burman 68%, Shan 9%, Karen 7%, Rakhine 4%, Chinese 3%, Indian 2%, Mon 2%, other 5% Religion: Buddhist 87.9%, Christian 6.2%, Muslim 4.3%, Animist 0.8%, Hindu 0.5%, Other 0.2%, None 0.1% ...