The government of old Burma -- Social and economic aspects of old Burma -- A century of British relations, 1784-1886 -- British administration, 1886-1914 -- Economic and social developments, 1870-1914 ...

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 ...

Myint Swe, who has died aged 74, was the stooge for the latest phase of the armed forces’ seemingly perpetual repression of the Burmese people. He became acting president of Myanmar in February 2021, ...

As the junta prepares for heavily rigged polls to be held in parts of the country, Bertil Lintner looks back at Myanmar’s troubled record of elections—which have rarely been free or fair.

A boat carrying about 300 migrants from Myanmar capsized last week in the Indian Ocean close to the maritime border between ...

In 1945, after three long years of war, the fight between the Allied forces and Japan over Burma finally ended. Japan was pushed out of Burma and ultimately lost World War II. Yet the end of the war ...

More than three-and-a-half years after the Myanmar military’s 2021 attempted coup, it is clear that alarm bells warning of the coup’s negative gendered impacts did not sound loudly enough. A brutal ...

Myanmar's military has given the go-ahead for a local company to own most of Norwegian telco Telenor's operations in the ...

Norway's Telenor is planning to transfer $100 million held by its troubled Myanmar operations to the unit's new buyers - an ...