The Akha are a highland people inhabiting parts of eastern and southern Shan State in Myanmar (Burma) as well as adjoining border regions in China, Thailand, and Laos. They speak a Tibeto-Burmese language that is related to that of the Lahu people who...

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Protestant Akha highlanders of Northern Thailand held a Silver Jubilee in 1987 celebrating the initial conversions to Christianity twenty-five years earlier. The Akha-language translation of the passage from the Gospel of Matthew selected as the Jubilee's theme evokes the image of a laden basket...

BORDER LANDSCAPES: The Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand. By Janet C. Sturgeon. Seattle and London (UK): University of Washington Press. 2005. xi, 256 pp. (Maps, B & W photos.) US$50.00, cloth. ISBN 0-295-98544-5. For centuries, people who call...

In a fierce three-day battle, Afghan officials said more than 100 people _ including militants, civilians, and police _ have been killed in fighting between NATO and insurgents, while U.S.-led coalition jets bombed a suspected al-Qaida compound, killing seven boys and several fighters.Afghanistan has seen...