Myanmar shares borders with China, India, Laos, Bangladesh and Thailand. The United States officially still calls the country Burma. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Myanmar voted on Sunday in its first election in 20 years, a scripted poll that will end nearly five decades of military rule in one of Southeast Asia's biggest and most ethnically ...

EARLIER this month, in a column in a state-owned newspaper entitled “The Truth behind the Northern Rakhine Issue”, a retired general decided to rebut the “absolute absurdities” he had read in the ...

(CNN) — Here's a look at Myanmar, a country in southeast Asia formerly known as Burma. About Myanmar: (from the CIA World Factbook) Area: 676,578 sq km (slightly smaller than Texas) Population: 55,123 ...

Here’s a look at Myanmar, a country in southeast Asia formerly known as Burma. Myanmar shares borders with China, India, Laos, Bangladesh and Thailand. The United States officially still calls the ...

Ethnic Groups: Burman 68%, Shan 9%, Karen 7%, Rakhine 4%, Chinese 3%, Indian 2%, Mon 2%, other 5% Religion: Buddhist 87.9%, Christian 6.2%, Muslim 4.3%, Animist 0.8%, Hindu 0.5%, Other 0.2%, None 0.1% ...