Upon arrival at the retreat, the Carmelite sisters handed each of us a basket and invited us to drop our cell phones in it, symbolically inviting us to disconnect from the outside world.

The Fenton family lost a beloved patriarch, and role model for a life devoted to the service of others, in the passing of Richard J. Fenton, 86, of Brockport NY. Richard died peacefully in his ...

Reports of Chinese citizens trafficked into scam centers along the Thai-Myanmar border are prompting renewed questions about Beijing’s reliance on Myanmar’s military regime to tackle ...

For Myanmar’s people, year four under military junta rule has only brought more death, displacement and despair, as their troubled homeland is torn further apart by a seemingly intractable civil ...

This article was originally published on January 7, 2025, on The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar that has been exiled in Thailand since the military coup in 2021. An edited version ...

As Myanmar’s civil war heads into a fifth year, anti-junta forces are opening universities and colleges as part of their pursuit of a federal democracy. By Richard C. Paddock Richard C.

A new Burmese restaurant will open to the public in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood Saturday. The family-owned restaurant Ni Burmese will showcase a variety of traditional dishes from Myanmar ...

This summer, we brought you the news of a new restaurant that would bring the flavors of Burmese cuisine to Bay View. And you can get your first taste beginning on Saturday, Jan. 25 Ni Burmese ...

The supermarket chain has rolled out the world's first set of dumbbell shopping baskets and trolley sledges, transforming regular store visits into workout sessions. Based on findings from Iceland ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 on the Richter Scale jolted Myanmar in the early hours of Friday, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. According to NCS, the magnitude 4.8 earthquake ...