(The Conversation) — This pattern of persecution goes back to 1948 – the year when the country achieved independence from their British colonizers. (The Conversation) — Some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims, ...

The Burma Campaign was a long and important part of WWII - so why is it so often overlooked? Let’s take a look in more detail ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. When Suu Kyi’s party triumphed in 2015, in the first free national elections since ...

Burma is a third-world country with a long history of left-wing politics dating back to the colonial era. Unlike the rest of the world, politics in Burma was totally a battle between left-wing groups.

Burmese writer and historian Dr. Thant Myint-U discussed his new book, “The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century” (2019), with an audience of ...

In the shadow of a pagoda and a mosque, not long after dawn in Rangoon, a line of Burmese, their bodies pressed together so tightly that sweat mingled and sarongs converged, shuffled forward to cast ...

Myanmar's jade industry is worth far more than previously thought and could be "the biggest natural resource heist in modern history," according to a new report published Friday. The report, the ...

The CSIS Banyan Tree Leadership Forum with Thant Myint-U Dr. Thant Myint-U is an award-winning writer, historian, conservationist, and a former advisor to the president of Myanmar. He has served on ...