I wanted to explore the romance of Myanmar's Irrawaddy River, which has stirred the imagination of some of the world's greatest writers, such as Kipling and Orwell. The name "Irrawaddy" is an ...

British forces crossed the Irrawaddy River in Burma and engaged a Japanese force, north of the Prome-Taungup road. With the ...

Fighting has been raging in Bhamo since Dec. 4, when the KIA and its allies launched an onslaught on junta positions in the southern Kachin town. The KIA has captured Bhamo Technological University, ...

The $3.6 billion project in the northern state of Kachin, along the country’s Irrawaddy River, was supposed to export about 90% of the electricity it generated to China, Myanmar’s northern ...

A pair of Irrawaddy dolphins — an extremely rare river species — were recently rescued along the coast of Myanmar. The two animals — a mother and her offspring — were discovered on Oct.

Outside Myanmar, activists from both environmental ... We are saying please don't build it, just let the Irrawaddy river flow freely forever. We have a duty to protect it." Our request to visit ...

Myanmar was on the bucket list of backpackers and tour groups, who climbed temple mountains and then marveled at pagodas as they chugged down the Irrawaddy River by boat. Long isolated ...

As the rebel Arakan Army advances inexorably on Gwa in southern Rakhine, the military is reinforcing artillery positions on ...

and are attacking the strategically important town of Tigyaing on the Irrawaddy River. PDFs are very active around Myanmar's second-largest city of Mandalay. The junta has also lost control of ...