The Palaung State Liberation Party is an armed opposition movement among the Palaung (Ta-ang) people of the Shan State of Myanmar (Burma). Related to the Wa, the Palaung and their villages are found in a number of districts in the state. The main...

Union of Myanmar Pyidaungzu Myanma Naingngandaw CAPITAL: Yangon (formerly Rangoon) FLAG: The national flag is red with a blue canton, within which 14 white stars encircle a rice stalk and an industrial wheel. ANTHEM: Kaba Makye (Our Free Homeland)....

Rebel groups have been battling the government of Myanmar, formerly Burma. The government has been criticized for its harsh suppression of rebels and protestors. The government of Myanmar has been criticized for denying human and civil rights and...

Myanmar POPULATION 42,238,224 BUDDHIST 87.2 percent CHRISTIAN 5.6 percent MUSLIM 3.6 percent HINDU 1.0 percent OTHER 2.6 percent Country Overview Introduction The Union of Myanmar, also called Burma, situated along the southeastern rim of continental...

Highlights and Key Issues * Pro-democracy protests in September, the largest since before the 1990 election, were firmly crushed by the military, but UN reports of many more deaths and imprisonments than officially admitted will ensure continued diplomatic and trade isolation. Tougher US...

Aung San Suu Kyi is being held in the country's nastiest prison IT WAS bad enough when the outside world did not know where Myanmar's junta was holding Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's leading dissident and Nobel peace prize laureate. Now,...

Myanmar's military government freed seven members of Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy party Tuesday who had been held for more than a month following the junta's deadly crackdown on anti-government protests, the party said.The releases came ahead of a visit by U.N. special envoy Ibrahim...

A weekly newspaper in military-ruled Myanmar skipped publication Thursday on government orders after flouting censorship rules, its publisher said.The government's Press Scrutiny Board ordered the Myanmar-language edition of the Myanmar Times not to publish this week for having run a story earlier that was not...

The history of Myanmar (Burma)