While many of the elements found in the music and dance traditions of Burma find earlier counterparts in ancient India, Burmese music and dance styles also show clear parallels to traditions in other ...

Burmese names are often very confusing to foreign visitors because we do not necessarily hand down family surnames from generation to generation and Burmese wives seldom use the names of their ...

Its colours include green, lavender, red and white. Jadeite was first discovered in the remote mountains of upper Burma (now Myanmar), in 1784, and by the beginning of the 19th century ...

(Burmese reporters have filed compelling stories ... Every sale is a gamble. Chunks of ­jadeite—as opposed to the more common nephrite, which is considered an inferior jade—resemble mud ...

Hsain Wain refers to an ensemble of instruments which include the pa’ wain, ci wain, maun hsain, hneh, pa’ ma, sa khun, hcau’loun pa’, si toh, ling win, and si wah. In the hsain wain, the pa’ wain is ...

What is Burmese music like? To ears accustomed only to Western music, ours may at first be a little disconcerting. It may seem more like a medley of spontaneous, unrelated sounds than a careful ...

The Rohingya were once counted as a part of the Mrauk-U (Mrohaung) kingdom in Arakan which stood independent of both the Burman kingdoms in the Irrawaddy delta and central Burma as well as Bengal ...

The $10,000 grand prize went to Ronald Kiger, who removed 20 Burmese pythons from the Florida Everglades during the 10-day hunt, which was meant to bring awareness to the threat that these pythons ...

A 13-foot Burmese python was recently confiscated from a residence in central New York, authorities said on Wednesday. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation said it received ...

But there could be just one winner of the $10,000 grand prize, and that was Ronald Kiger of Marion County, who brought in 20 Burmese pythons during the contest. Kiger's triumph was announced at ...

The contemporary Burmese restaurant opened in Singapore's trendy Duxton area in August, marking Hong Kong-based hospitality ...

Burmese restaurant chain Burma Burma has raised $2 million in seed funding led by Negen Capital. Ankit Gupta and Chirag Chhajer in 2014 founded the restaurant. The funding will be used to open ...