Earthquakes strike when tectonic plates, the large rocks making up the Earth’s crust, rub against each other. The USGS says ...

embroidery and tapestry (Plate 18); weaving, basketry, canework, toys; and the remarkable lacquerware. Compared with the artistic wonders of Pagan, I must confess that Burmese contemporary art ...

The seismic event highlights Myanmar’s vulnerability to earthquakes, largely due to its location along the Sagaing Fault, a major tectonic boundary between the Indian Plate and the Burma microplate.

(See Training Elephants, Plate 38 in the art section.) With the British annexation of Burma in 1885 came new forces which were completely to change the patterns of Burmese writing: the printing ...

Police are searching for Burmese tomboy twins who fatally stabbed a Burmese man outside an apartment in Pathum Thani.