The Burmese language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman group of the Tibeto-Chinese family of languages, but, unlike Chinese, it is not ideographic. That is, it does not have characters which originated as ...

“We want democracy” is spelled out in huge white letters on a street in Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon. “Justice for Myanmar” is carved on a row of watermelons by chefs protesting against the Feb. 1 ...

Google’s translation tool is constantly adding new languages, but its latest update is notable because it includes Burmese, the official language of Myanmar, as well as Malayalam, one of India’s six ...

Myanma Freedom Daily published its last issue last week--at least for a few months. It became the third daily newspaper in Myanmar (aka Burma) to close this year. In fact, it was third daily paper to ...

YANGON, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar government has launched migration of Unicode standard across the country to support e-government program for the development of the nation. The use of Unicode ...

At a tiny desk in his Canoga Park home, over a week after a military coup in his native country, Thakhin Kai Bwor was putting together the latest edition of the Myanmar Gazette. In one dispatch, ...

Startup Squar will compete with Facebook for an exceedingly small pool of Burmese web users, with Internet penetration rates in the country at just 1 percent. By Rosie Gogan-Keogh Myanmar’s first ...