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Yangon (Burmese: ရန်ကုန်), formerly known in English as Rangoon, was the capital of Myanmar until it was replaced by Naypyidaw in 2005. Western governments...

1971. Myanmar — known as Burma under colonial rule. Split off to form a separate colony in 1937, and became independent in 1948. Sri Lanka — known as...

division instead fled by land into Burma, from where they continued to conduct cross-border raids on communist positions in China, until they were driven out...

Great Leap Forward (1958-1962) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Following the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1985, in which the British agreed...

At the Singkhon Pass in the Mueang district, there is a border crossing into Burma. Near there, the distance from the Burmese border to the Gulf of Thailand...

trading vessels from all over the world. This era ended when the Burmese invaded Ayutthaya in 1767 and almost completely burnt the city to the ground. Today...

Signing Store, 403-A, Jalan Burma, ☏ +60 42406133. 8AM – 10PM. Opened in November 2019, this is the 4th Starbucks signing store in the world. (updated Aug...

Mexico, several thousand German-speaking Mennonite Christians arrived in Belize in 1958 after long and detailed discussions with the government regarding...

then go up to the cash register while the folks behind you in line chitchat in Burmese and a car drives by outside with thumping reggaeton on the stereo...

United States to enter the war. Burma Road, bringing supplies to beleaguered China The conflict between China and Japan began in 1937, and over time became...

West Side or out in suburbia, in the quasi-Chinatown that's coalesced in Amherst between the two UB campuses. Speaking of which: Burmese cuisine is hard...

the Mineirão in Belo Horizonte or Morumbi Stadium in São Paulo. The men's national team has won the World Cup a record 5 times (in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994...

was built from scratch to be the capital of Myanmar, succeeding the former capital Yangon in that role in 2005. Yerevan as it exists today was purpose-built...

American by Graham Greene (1955). Set in 1950s Saigon. A love triangle with a historical backdrop. 2 film adaptations: 1958 & 2002. The Lover by Marguerite...

invading Burmese army. There is an impressive white structure with a golden spire next to the temple, that reaches higher than many other buildings in the...

the same roster of Burmese and Thai specialties you'll find elsewhere — tea leaf salad, spicy yum nua beef salad, tom yum and Burmese chicken coconut soups...

week. They've been doing their thing since 1958 in the former home of St. Stephen's Evangelical Church in the western reaches of Broadway-Fillmore — a...

referring to Mark Marotto's eponymous restaurant in Kenmore. But the original Marotto's, founded in 1958 by family patriarch Jerry, is still going strong...