News Myanmar History: 'Zero-dollar tourism' surges in Myanmar
The tour packages, moreover, do not hire local tour guides who are registered and licensed at the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism, instead, they hire Chinese tour guides who speak Myanmar language with ...
News Myanmar History: Top 10 books about Burma
9. The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma by Thant Myint-U Another title taken from Kipling, Thant Myint-U roams through Burma’s early history, the colonial period, independence and ...
News Myanmar History: Myanmar says military 'dignity' harmed by US ban on army chief
A US travel ban on Myanmar army chief Min Aung Hlaing over his role in orchestrating a bloody crackdown against Rohingya Muslims harms the dignity of the military, a spokesman said Wednesday, adding critics failed to properly understand the crisis. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that the
News Myanmar History: U.S. sanctions Myanmar generals over mass killings of Rohingya
Myanmar's military has been accused of widespread rights violations ... Neil Armstrong and "CBS Evening News" anchor Walter Cronkite -- the man who made history and the man who reported it Bezos and ...
News Myanmar History: Morning Digest: Chandrayaan-2 to be launched tomorrow, India builds 250 homes in Myanmar to assist Rohingya, and more
On July 9, Ambassador to Myanmar Saurabh Kumar handed over 250 completed pre ... seeks its biggest moment under the sun very appropriately at a venue steeped in history. Lord’s has its iconic ...
News Myanmar History: A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma review – from the Himalayas to Yangon
Eimer prefers Burma because he is not willing “to abide by a unilateral decision made by a group of generals eager to rewrite history for their own purposes”. Burma is “one of the most religious ...
News Myanmar History: UN investigator: Myanmar must give Rohingya 'pathway to citizenship'
Buddhist-majority Myanmar does not recognize the Muslim Rohingya as citizens despite a long history in the country Myanmar must grant citizenship to stateless Rohingya with roots in the country, a ...
News Myanmar History: Myanmar love poem saved by devotion of fans
Myanmar has around 13.3 million smokers ... Political commentator Mg Mg Soe took to Facebook to brand the decision-makers “idiots” who “did not understand history”. This week the authorities ...
News Myanmar History: Myanmar must give Rohingya 'pathway to citizenship': UN investigator
Myanmar must grant citizenship to stateless Rohingya with roots in the country, a senior UN investigator said yesterday, as she urged the country's leader Aung San Suu Kyi to "be the democrat she once told us she was". Buddhist-majority Myanmar does not recognise the Muslim Rohingya as citizens despite a long history in the country.
News Myanmar History: The Last Overland: Remaking History Through A 10,000 Mile Road Expedition From Singapore To London
It is an expedition that will take them through the jungles of Malaysia and Myanmar, the mountains of the Himalayas ... and travel experts – all united in their passion for automotive history and ...
News Myanmar History: Myanmar’s beauty and troubles laid bare in A Savage Dreamland by David Eimer
For all its early focus on Myanmar’s colonial past, the strongest parts of the book are those that deal with the country’s more immediate history, and its harder-to-reach borderlands. The decades ...
News Myanmar History: Burma under British rule: Vintage photographs show Buddhist monks, traditional hunters and even a boat race from Myanmar’s days as a British colony
Britain fought three wars against the Burmese, gaining various parts of the country, before finally occupying all the area of present-day Myanmar on 1 January 1886. The First Anglo-Burmese War was the ...
News Myanmar History: For Rohingya Refugees, There’s No Return In Sight
BRAD ADAMS is Asia Director at Human Rights Watch. The Rohingya Muslims have faced persecution in Myanmar for decades. And yet no violence in their recent history has compared to that which the ...
