Burma
- Population: 50.7 million (UN, 2005)
- Capital: Rangoon (Yangon) (authorities say the seat of government is moving to Pyinmana, north of Rangoon)
- Area: 676,552 sq km (261,218 sq miles)
- Major languages: Burmese, indigenous ethnic languages
- Major religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Islam
- Life expectancy: 57 years (men), 63 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 kyat = 100 pyas
- New Light of Myanmar - English-language organ of SPDC
- Myanmar Times – state-run English-language weekly
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When On a Burman Bus - Befriend the Ladyboy
A bus pulled up to the spot where the white dirt road met the black asphalt of the highway. Sergey and I had been sitting on our backpacks by the ...
Don't Mess with Monks in Myanmar
As of 1 October, the US State Department didn’t yet issue a travel warning against going to Myanmar (Burma), but if you’re already traveling across neighboring countries like Bangladesh, Laos, ...
Burma Travel News
- Myanmar, Laos sign travel and tax treaties - Monsters and Critics.com
- Journalists discuss implications of Obama's trip to Asia - Columbia Missourian
- 'This isn't the Britain we fought for,' say the 'unknown warriors' of WWII - Daily Mail
- Malaria Develops Resistance to Our Best Drugs - Softpedia
- Illegal Burmese migrants: caught between hiding or becoming legal - The Nation
