Chinese President Xi Jinping praised the resilient and deepening "Paukphaw" (fraternal) bond with Myanmar, emphasizing that over the past 75 years, this enduring friendship has withstood the test of ...

But as the historian Thant Myint-U writes in his incisive new book, The Hidden History of Burma, the vacillating international perceptions of Myanmar—from pariah state to democratic success story and ...

Like Ms. Suu Kyi, Mr. Myint-U, the author of this fascinating account of Myanmar’s crisis-filled history, also grew up ... s military dictatorship — this book takes its strength from the ...

A new book highlights the role that the country ... In addition to documenting her eventful journey, Hammond burrows into the history of Myanmar’s rail network, outlining its connections ...

These seven books go some way towards explaining ... Rider; 496 pages; £14.99 Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech. By Ronan Lee. I.B. Taurus; 288 pages; £19.99 ...

History suggests that resistance will not end ... to a lifelong relationship with the country and its people. A new book highlights the role that the country's rail network has played in the ...

For more than three years, wartime atrocities in Myanmar have been in plain sight for anyone willing to look. As pro-democracy and ethnic resistance groups fight against the military junta that ...

Myanmar’s second city of Mandalay and the adjacent cities of Sagaing and Inwa, dotted around the quake’s epicentre, are all ancient seats of power, steeped in history and now pockmarked with ...

Myanmar's religious temples stood as symbols of faith and history. After the recent 7.7 magnitude earthquake, many are wondering: will they ever rise again or are they lost forever? This building ...

Why have they played such a unique role throughout Myanmar’s history? And why does poetry still resonate ... In a work of narrative non-fiction published by River Books, "Frontline Poets" explores ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... was nominated as the first prime minister of independent Myanmar. However, a year before, Aung San, who led the ...