The Chin are a Tibeto-Burmese people who predominate in the great range of hills that run up western Myanmar (Burma) from the Arakan Yoma into Mizoram in northeast India. More than forty different subgroups have been categorized among the Chin...

(2000 pop. 532,000). The Chin State in northwestern Myanmar (Burma) comprises some of the least developed hill regions in the country. Formerly governed under the British Frontier Areas Administration, a Chin Special Division was created from these...

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First, it was breasts. Then, it was hips, lips, and buttocks. Now, patients' insatiable appetite for aesthetic surgical procedures has seized upon another part of the body: the chin. Plastic surgeons in Britain, for example, are reporting a 35% increase in the number...

Like lumbering dinosaurs, they appeared and became massive and multiplied. Then they just died out. Or so it seemed. Community health information networks, which had a brief heyday in the mid-1990s, are largely a thing of the past. But a CHIN in Dayton,...

Myanmar will launch a polio immunization campaign after a toddler was found with the disease, the country's second case since it was declared free of the paralyzing illness seven years ago, a newspaper reported Sunday.The campaign, launched by the health ministry and the United Nation's...

A dissident group said Thursday that guards at Myanmar's detention centers have beaten protesters rounded up from last month's crushed pro-democracy demonstrations and refused lifesaving medical care for some, resulting in their deaths.The Democratic Voice of Burma, a Norway-based shortwave radio station and Web site...