Upper Burma News Today

China and Burma, which share a 1,500-mile border, have a complicated relationship. In Xi Jinping's Belt and Road initiative, Burma is strategically important as an important shipping route connecting the Indian Ocean and China's Yunnan province, thus avoiding the Strait of Malacca. Beijing not only supports Burma's current military regime, which came to power in a coup in

The founder of the Ahom Kingdom, Su-Ka-Pha, stands as a beacon of courage and enlightenment in the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam.

In September 1923, the British empire reached its maximum territorial extent. A staggering 460 million people lived within its borders. Yet just as the imperial project reached its apex, writes Matthew Parker, cracks were widening…

Louis XIV established the French East India Company (1665-1674) with the intention of outpacing the English and Dutch in trade with Asia.

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Manipur’s rich, complex history should not be forgotten in the midst of the ongoing crisis.

THE Ingleborough Estate in Clapham is hoping to be recognised by a leading garden plant conservation and research charity with the planting of a…

The Round Table – the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs – brought out two special issues on India and Pakistan on the 75th anniversary of their independence. The previous...

Keith Fisher's A Pipeline Runs Through It reminds us that this isn’t the first time dependence on Russian oil has had awful consequences

The July birthstone, the ruby, is among the most prized of the precious stones. It is one of the hardest gemstones, chemically related to the sapphire.