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 ...

Q: What does a missionary do? A: He does as God pleases and as he deposes. As I close my eyes and remember Burma in which I had lived on and off for five years, I recall the smiles around me. The ...

Walter Lohman is director of the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation. To achieve American aims in Burma, a policy is needed that clearly lays out the benchmarks of reform and consequences ...

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 ...

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 ...

Minn Latt Yekhaun, a.k.a. Min Latt Ye Khaung was a Burmese linguist who was one of the first three Burmese students to study in Prague during the 1950s. He was an influential activist and student ...

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 ...

Language Log notes that Apple's Dictionary program (v. 1.02 running in Tiger) gave an interesting pronunciation for "Myanmar:" It's pronounced "Burma." Graham Webster Formerly a journalist and ...