Burma is now Myanmar, Rangoon is Yangon, Prome is Pyay and Pegu is Bago.
People in Myanmar will welcome, cheer Hillary Clinton because for a time in history they have never seen a secretary of state.
Compared with neighbors Myanmar, Vietnam, and Laos, Cambodia appears to have a blossoming civil society.
Did you visit Myanmar, which is one of the other main settings?
While they are working to expand themselves into a global force, their hearts will forever be anchored in Myanmar.
But travel even higher still, to the tiny towns clustered on the border of Myanmar, and the cuisine changes yet again.
Sharp first published his manual to resistance, which teaches 198 methods of nonviolent action, in Myanmar.
“I think it is a significant turn in U.S. policy toward Myanmar [Burma],” Thein Sein adviser Ko Ko Hlaing crowed to Reuters.
While in Myanmar, Webb became the first top-level American politician to meet with the leader of the ruling junta, Than Shwe.
I traveled in Myanmar for a few weeks with a journalist friend in 2006, and it kind of blew my mind.
an old name for a part of Burma and a word for the country in native speech, officially chosen by military rulers of Burma in 1989. Reasons given include casting off a relic of colonialism, or downplaying of the connection to the Burman ethnic majority.
It should be pointed out that this renaming has virtually no impact on Burmese citizens speaking in Burmese, who continue to refer to both Myanma as well as Bama (this not unlike formal reference in the English language to 'The Netherlands' while informally using 'Holland'). [Gustaaf Houtman, "Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics," 1999]
The official name for Burma since 1989.