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 ...

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 ...

'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 ...

I said that I would find the place myself. I wanted to walk through the city, into Chinatown. “No, thank you. I do not want a ride, it’s all right.” The pause at the other end of the phone was so long ...

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 ...

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 ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan – The magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar on Friday has killed more than 1,600 people and injured more than 3,400 and was felt as far as Thailand, Laos and southern China. The ...

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 ...