Unlike the more common nephrite, which is usually found in a spinach-green hue, jadeite from Burma is celebrated for its vivid color and translucency. Crafting a large marriage bowl from this prized ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The scale at which the Burmese python is able to decimate the native wildlife population in South Florida continues to astonish biologists studying to eradicate the invasive species. Researchers ...

Saw Berny was one of tens of thousands from all over Burma who volunteered to fight for Britain against the Japanese The soldiers who fought for Britain in Burma (now Myanmar) in World War Two ...

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 beauty of the green stone (Jadeite) meant that it was highly valued as a trade object. It was found in Jersey about 1,000 miles from where it was made. Although stone axes were produced ...

Here’s a scary story for you on this Halloween day. Decades ago, Burmese python snakes were discovered in Florida’s Everglades National Park. These snakes, native to southeast Asia ...

Track the progress of the Burma Campaign - from the rapid Japanese victories of 1941, to the desperate battles for the Indian towns of Kohima and Imphal. Then follow the course of the Allies as ...

Burmese Harp (8510 Fourth Avenue, at 86th Street) is the first restaurant for husband-and-wife owners Thein Tun Aung, known as Tony, and Aye Moe Khine. The couple was born in the 1970s in Yangon ...