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BANGKOK — For three months in 2016, a British journalist working in Myanmar traveled across the Southeast Asian country on trains with a mission to find out where they led, who built them, and why.

August 8 is a date etched in blood. On this day in 1988, Myanmar’s military turned its guns on thousands of peaceful protesters in what is now remembered as the 8888 uprising. Although it was by no ...

A new book highlights the role that the country’s rail network has played in the making – and unmaking – of a conflict-torn country. A gate lies across the tracks at the Gokteik viaduct in Myanmar’s ...

Given the sorry trajectory of the country’s recent history, a peaceful and structured dissolution might be better than a forced unity. “The Union long united must be divided and long divided must be ...

BANGKOK — Three well-armed militias launched a surprise joint offensive in northeastern Myanmar a year ago, breaking a strategic stalemate with the regime’s military with rapid gains of huge swaths of ...

For many young visitors, the experience offered something increasingly rare in the digital age: the chance to encounter history firsthand rather than through screens. - Xinhua YANGON: On Sunday (May ...

When a massive earthquake hit Myanmar last month, centuries of sacred history tumbled down -- towering Buddha idols, sky-scraping stupas and the pure-white Nagayon pagoda where worshippers have prayed ...

In a censored nation that runs on rumor and omens, people in Myanmar wonder whether the latest disaster might be a portent of regime change. By Hannah Beech The dust from the devastating earthquake on ...

The massive March 28 quake damaged thousands of monasteries and pagodas in Myanmar - Copyright AFP Sai Aung MAIN The massive March 28 quake damaged thousands of ...