Last week I wrote about the Rohingya, an ethnic group in Myanmar who have undergone intense persecution from both the ...

it was the capital of the Burmese Empire. Until 2005, Yangon was the capital of the country. In 2005-2006, the capital was moved to the city of Naypyidaw, 320 km north of Yangon. According to the ...

Orwell was further embarrassed by having a Franco-Burmese "Chi-Chi" grandmother who smoked cheroots, "the dead wood of the Empire". Standing almost twice the height of the Burmese, Orwell as a ...