2005-12-25 04:00:00 PDT Rangoon, Burma-- The government workers received two days' notice to pack up their offices and be ready to move. The military regime that rules this impoverished country had ...

In the fourth of a series from inside Burma, the BBC's Kate McGeown looks at how the government's abrupt decision to move its capital is affecting local people. When Burma's military rulers began ...

Taiwan's Myanmarese expatriate community has reacted with shock to their government's announcement Monday that it was moving the capital from Yangon to Pyinmana, with speculation rife here that the ...

Gordon S. Seagrave (TIME, April 20) was a medical missionary in Burma when the Japanese invasion came. His super-manful feats of surgery in the ensuing bloody weeks are well and widely known. When ...

The site of the new capital is in a remote mountainous area Burma's decision to shift its seat of government has left many analysts at a loss to explain the move. After all, why go to the huge trouble ...

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"The object of the school is to train people to practice farming and marketing more successfully and to live a fuller life in the village. In order that village boys may enter, only vernacular primary ...

Khing Hnin Wai is a physical education instructor living in Pyinmana, Myanmar. According to her Facebook profile, she was doing her regular workout routine on Monday morning, which she recorded, when ...