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...
Myanmar (Burma) has been the home of some of the most powerful Southeast Asian states. Prior to 1000 CE, the lands that would become Myanmar were populated by the Mon people, who migrated westward from the Mekong Valley into southeastern Burma, and the...
The physical geography of Myanmar (as Burma has been known since 1989) has played an important role in the history of its foreign relations. Dividing western and central Myanmar is the Arakan Yoma mountain range, which meant that until 1785 there were...
The political system of Myanmar (Burma until 1989) has been in a state of continual change since precolonial times. From the eleventh century CE until the British annexation during the nineteenth century, power in lowland areas was concentrated in city...
Reflecting both its history as an exporter of raw agricultural produce and as a country that has for decades isolated itself from the world economy, the economy of Myanmar (Burma before 1989) is largely agricultural. After the seventeenth century and...
Myanmar (Burma) Myanmar (also known as Burma) occupies a geographically strategic position where south, southeast, and northeast Asia meet. It shares borders with the world s Armed Forces: Power Without Glory. Norwalk, CT: East Bridge, 2002....
(2000 est. pop. 41.7 million). Myanmar, officially the Union of Myanmar (also known as Burma), is located in Southeast Asia, bordered by Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, China on the northeast, and Laos and Thailand on the east. The...
Since Myanmar's independence from Great Britain in 1948 (at which time Myanmar was still known as Burma), the issue of human rights has become one of the most contentious in its modern-day politics and evolution. Many of the most serious...
The Burmese have always had a great respect for education and a relatively high literacy rate. However, there are serious deficiencies in the education system deriving from the years of isolation during the period of Ne Win's military socialist...
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...
