While overwhelmingly Theravāda Buddhist, a vast majority of Burmese simultaneously believe in the cult of toungze khunna min, 37 nat spirits.In fact, Melford E. Spiro, one of the foremost ...

To people who come to Burma for the first time there are two things about the status of our women that seem to impress them with particular force.

Burma's military government on Wednesday said it will draft 60,000 young men and women yearly for military service under its newly activated conscription law, with call-ups beginning after the ...

Join us on International Women’s Day to learn how the U.S. government can support Burmese women as they fight for a brighter future in their country. Tuesday, Mar 8, 2022 3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

It’s difficult in Thailand, but in Burma there is no opportunity either,” says Kaung Tip Kyio, a 23-year-old young woman who migrated from eastern Shan state to Thailand in 2014 to work as a ...

Women have not been spared the military’s crackdown on dissent: the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) told Al Jazeera that out of 1,260 people killed by security forces ...

Burma has had three rulers in the past half-century, and all have been devotees of yadaya.General Ne Win, who ruled from 1962 to 1988, reportedly shot his own reflection in a mirror, on the advice ...