The Burma Star was a medal awarded during the Burma Campaign, but it has some controversy attached. Read on to find out more.

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A university student with Myanmar roots and a young historian from Singapore discover how veterans and their descendants are ...

Burma is a third-world country with a long history of left-wing politics dating back to the colonial era. Unlike the rest of the world, politics in Burma was totally a battle between left-wing groups.

Burmese writer and historian Dr. Thant Myint-U discussed his new book, “The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century” (2019), with an audience of ...

The CSIS Banyan Tree Leadership Forum with Thant Myint-U Dr. Thant Myint-U is an award-winning writer, historian, conservationist, and a former advisor to the president of Myanmar. He has served on ...

Just a few years ago, Myanmar (also called Burma) was widely seen as an international success story. In March 2011, after half a century of military rule, a quasi-civilian government led by the former ...

In the shadow of a pagoda and a mosque, not long after dawn in Rangoon, a line of Burmese, their bodies pressed together so tightly that sweat mingled and sarongs converged, shuffled forward to cast ...