longyi: lower garment of Burmese dress for both sexes; it is wrapped around like a skirt or sarong. mahadevi: wife of a sawbwa, a Shan chief. Mara: in Buddhism, the spirit of evil; the tempter.

Burmese is their home language, they are almost all Buddhists, they wear Burmese dress, and inhabit the central part of the country (see map on last page).

Local resident Naomi Boucher is sharing traditions from Myanmar as May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Boucher, 51, who is a native of Ye Oo, which is located north of Mandalay ...

I got a traditional Burmese dress, the longyi. I was also prepared to smear myself with the sunscreen powder you see most Burmese women wearing on their faces. But finding someone who would go with me ...

An enormous fluffy, white, blue-eyed Burmese cat mascot ascended the Metropolitan Museum of Art steps on Monday in homage to Karl Lagerfeld’s beloved pet “Choupette,” who later revealed ...

It took months of planning to meet the man, who with his force of just 100 men, is taking on the might of the Burmese military. The men who follow him are all from a small ethnic minority group called ...