The Burmese language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman group of the Tibeto-Chinese family of languages, but, unlike Chinese, it is not ideographic. That is, it does not have characters which originated as ...

Burma's military has reached a cease-fire agreement with an alliance of ethnic minority guerrilla groups it has been battling in the country's northeast, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Friday.

FORT WAYNE, ind. (WANE) – 18 young Burmese language learners received certificates of learning, and 5 Burmese college students received scholarship awards at the Burmese Language and Cultural School’s ...

Myanma Freedom Daily published its last issue last week--at least for a few months. It became the third daily newspaper in Myanmar (aka Burma) to close this year. In fact, it was third daily paper to ...

Google’s translation tool is constantly adding new languages, but its latest update is notable because it includes Burmese, the official language of Myanmar, as well as Malayalam, one of India’s six ...

Google has announced today that Gmail now supports Burmese across its interface, bringing the service’s language count to 74. Gmail users in Myanmar will be able to choose between two virtual ...

From the beginning of Myanmar’s political transition, the challenge has been transforming a country divided by language, culture, territory and religion into a socially cohesive state. International ...

Two billboards are now along roadsides in Des Moines that are part of Iowa’s first-ever Burmese language campaign to prevent stillbirths. The blue billboards feature a pregnant woman and all Burmese ...

For several years now, the emails have shown up within hours — sometimes within minutes — after NPR posts or broadcasts news about one Southeast Asian nation. They would say something such as this: We ...

This week, the military upended years of quasi-democratic rule in Myanmar, with soldiers taking control of the country in a carefully orchestrated coup. The military said the seizure of power was ...