How a Poem Briefly Shook Myanmar’s Resistance Movement “To…Ma Ma Nu Gyi,” an elegiac anti-war poem, has highlighted a divide among opponents of military rule.

Poetry has long played a political role in Myanmar, and many poets there before Saungkha have been sent to prison. In the early part of the twentieth century, nationalists used verse to rouse ...

Maung Saungkha, a 23-year-old poet from Myanmar's capital Yangon, told The Irrawaddy news site that he has been in hiding since the beginning of the month after posting a poem on social entitled ...

The poem by Rudyard Kipling is written through the eyes of a retired British serviceman in Myanmar, also known as Burma, which Britain colonised for more than a century. In the footage due to be ...

A Myanmar love poem will remain on the national curriculum after the government’s plans to scrap it over fears it promoted smoking sparked widespread public anger. Present of a Cheroot, composed ...

YANGON, Myanmar (RNS) Sometimes a smiley-face emoticon just won’t do the trick. In Myanmar, the newest set of Facebook stickers features a flower in an animated character’s mouth. The 24 ...

YANGON, Myanmar — Sometimes a smiley-face emoticon just won’t do the trick. In Myanmar, the newest set of Facebook stickers features a flower in an animated character’s mouth. The 24 ...