“Peoples in the Winds of Change” is a stunning feast of photography by Yuzo Uda.

In early 2008, I was in Kengtung in eastern Shan State, talking about the continued hardship of the Shan population with an elderly Shan political leader.

The immediate fate of Burma’s royal family is well known. A long, escalating feud between British interests and Burma’s monarchial government led to ...

The end of the Cold War spelt the end of an era for many of the world’s unchallenged autocrats. Confronted by a wave of democratic euphoria, ...

In 1925, U.S. President Calvin Coolidge quipped, “The business of America is business.” And while he went on in the same speech to ...

Books about Burma’s economy are rare, and books about economic conditions in Burma’s vast rural hinterland, home to the great majority of  ...

Another sign of the opening media space in Burma: Dr. Thant Myint-U’s River of Lost Footsteps has been translated into ...

During the past 20 years the existence of political prisoners in Burma came to be accepted as normal by the international community.

Given the profile and popularity of Aung San Suu Kyi, it is extraordinary that it has taken so long for this book to be written. Here, at last, ...

It was a bit of a local pastime in the northeastern Burmese town of Hsipaw; idly passing afternoons in a tea shop or restaurant along the main road and ...