Myanmar/Burmese musicians’ use of foreign instruments in the last 150 years has enchanted the ear of many newcomers to the music of lowland Myanmar/Burma. Foreign listeners recognize familiar timbres ...

Ferguson, Jane M. 2013. Burmese Super Trouper: How Burmese Poets and Musicians Turn Global Popular Music intoCopy Thachin. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 14, Issue. 3, p. 221. Matsue, ...

The Myanmar military carried out a series of mass ... which is also called Burma, deposing a democratically-elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi. The BBC spoke to 11 witnesses in Kani ...

But where exactly did the coup happen? Was it in Myanmar, as the country is officially called? Or was it in Burma, the name Washington continues to use? The answer is complicated. Because when ...

Current Realities and Future Possibilities in Burma/Myanmar: Options for U.S. Policy, released in March 2010, offers a detailed strategy that positions the U.S. to respond effectively and flexibly to ...

It lists a wide selection of works on or about Myanmar published in English and in hard copy since the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, which marked the beginning of a new era in Myanmar's modern history.

Myanmar, also known as Burma, is the world's biggest source of jade, but its mines have seen numerous accidents. The landslide is believed to have been caused by an overflow of rubble discarded ...

The British were the first in Myanmar (then Burma) to build railways into territory ... hasn’t made much of a ripple in the actual music community. Regional leaders probably criticized China ...

Jason Tower is the country director of the Burma ... Myanmar. Anti-rock rhetoric in China’s new national security education textbook hasn’t made much of a ripple in the actual music community.

Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma) - September 15, 2024 More than 100 people have died in flooding and mudslides caused by the remnants of Typhoon Yagi in Myanmar. Spokesman for the nation's ruling junta ...

Ying Lao’s efforts, said Debbie Stothard, director of Altsean-Burma, a regional rights group supporting women’s empowerment in Myanmar. “They’re shifting attitudes, and that is really ...