* India / Sri Lanka: Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma

; Burma / Myanmar

A German Government report on fuel prices dated 2010 / 11 stated that the Imperial gallon is used as a unit of measure for fuel in Guyana, United Arab Emirates and Antigua and Barbuda and the US gallon in Liberia, Belize, Colombia, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Myanmar ( Burma ), Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico and the United States.

While the CIA Factbook in 2006 stated that the " US is the only industrialized nation that does not mainly use the metric system ", ( in addition to non-industrialised Burma / Myanmar, Liberia ), the actual situation, however, is more complicated than the CIA Factbook would suggest-in the United Kingdom, for example, although metric is the official system for most regulated trading by weight or measure purposes, the pint is the official unit for milk in returnable bottles and for draught beer and cider in British pubs, and miles, yards and feet remain the official units for road signage.

U. S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ( R-FL ) said that the report " underscores the need for democratic change in Burma, whose military regime arbitrarily arrests, tortures, rapes and executes its own people, ruthlessly persecutes ethnic minorities, and bizarrely builds itself a new capital city while failing to address the increasingly urgent challenges of refugee flows, illicit narcotics and human trafficking, and the spread of HIV / AIDS and other communicable diseases.

On the 13th of January 2012, the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the US will exchange ambassadors with Burma, after a landmark Burmese political prisoner amnesty .< ref > British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC )– US to exchange ambassadors with Burma, < http :// www. bbc. co. uk / news / world-asia-16554415 >.

* Reorienting strategies towards Burma / Myanmar, Opinion by Bernt Berger, May 2008, European Union Institute for Security Studies

* On May 3, 2008, Over 146, 000 in Burma / Myanmar are killed by Cyclone Nargis.

* Maru language, one of several languages spoken among the Kachin people in Myanmar / Burma and China.

Most recently, there has been evidence that North Korea is attempting to leak sensitive nuclear technology to Burma / Myanmar, although experts are unsure about whether the technology is for peaceful or weapons-based use.

During World War II General Ellsworth flew 400 missions in the China / Burma / India Theater.

He commanded 2nd Battalion The Manchester Regiment during the Battle of Kohima fought on the Burma / India border from April to June 1944, despite being wounded on 24 April.

The empire, which grew out of the former kingdom of Chenla, at times ruled over and / or vassalized parts of modern-day Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, and Malaysia.

* www. kevchino. com / interview / mission-of-burma / 73 Kevchino Interview with Roger Miller of Mission of Burma

In the republic of Burma, the title was used for the Chief ministers of the following autonomous states, from 1947 / 48 till the abolition of that autonomy in 1962: Arakan State ( Rakhine ), Chin state, Karen State ( Kayin ), Kayah State ( Karenni ), Kachin State and Shan state

RAF units and forces in Burma, the Netherlands East Indies, French Indochina, and Siam / Thailand left in 1945-1947.

*-( l ) ese ( Aragon → Aragonese, Assam → Assamese, Benin → Beninese, Bhutan → Bhutanese, Burma → Burmese ( though see below ; Irregular forms ), Calabria → Calabrese, China → Chinese, Congo → Congolese, Da Lat ( Vietnam ) → Dalatese, East Timor → East Timorese, The Faroe Islands → Faroese, Gabon → Gabonese, Genoa → Genovese, Guangdong → Cantonese, Guyana → Guyanese, Hong Kong → HongKongnese / Chinese, Japan → Japanese, Lebanon → Lebanese, Macao → Macanese / Chinese, Malta → Maltese, Marshall Islands → Marshallese, Milan → Milanese, Nepal → Nepalese, Piedmont → Piedmontese, Portugal → Portuguese, San Marino → Sammarinese, Sark → Sarkese, Senegal → Senegalese, Shanghai → Shanghainese, Sikkim → Sikkimese, ( South ) Sudan → ( South ) Sudanese, Suriname → Surinamese, Republic of China → Taiwanese, Togo → Togolese, Turin → Torinese, the Tyrol → Tyrolese, Vienna → Viennese, Vietnam → Vietnamese )

: The U. S. does not recognize the renaming of Burma by its ruling military junta to Myanmar and thus keeps its entry for the country under " Burma ".

Civil wars have further resulted in economic collapse ; Burma ( Myanmar ), Uganda and Angola are examples of nations that were considered to have promising futures before being engulfed in civil wars.

For example, the nation of Burma officially changed its name to Myanmar, but many nations do not recognize the ruling junta and continue to use Burma.

Students on their way to school, Hakha, Chin State, Burma | Myanmar

The border with Burma ( Myanmar ) extends up to 1, 643 km ( 1, 021 mi ) along the southern borders of India's northeastern states.

The Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia, including Myanmar ( Burma ), Thailand, Laos and Cambodia traditionally harvested ivory from their domesticated elephants.

* Burma ( Myanmar )

When the Japanese carried their attack through Burma ( now Myanmar ) to the borders of India in the spring of 1942, the British government, faced by this new military threat, decided to make some overtures to India, as Nehru had originally desired.

Laos is a landlocked nation in Southeast Asia, northeast of Thailand, west of Vietnam, that covers 236, 800 square kilometers in the center of the Southeast Asian peninsula, is surrounded by Burma ( Myanmar ), Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Thailand, and Vietnam.

* Burma ( Myanmar )

* Mu River, a river in Burma ( Myanmar )

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar ( also known as Burma ) is the northwestern-most country on the mainland of southeast Asia.

The following is an overview of the demographics of Burma ( or Myanmar ), including statistics such as population, ethnicity, language, education level and religious affiliation.

Burma ( also known as Myanmar ) is unitary presidential constitutional republic under the 2008 constitution.

The Economy of Burma ( Myanmar ) is one of the least developed in the world, suffering from decades of stagnation, mismanagement, and isolation.

Burma ( Myanmar ) is the largest producer of methamphetamines in the world, with the majority of ya ba found in Thailand produced in Burma, particularly in the Golden Triangle and Northeastern Shan State, which borders Thailand, Laos and China.

The Myanmar Armed Forces, officially known as Tatmadaw (, ) is the military organization of Burma, also known as Myanmar.

* 1988 – The " 8888 Uprising " occurs in Burma.

* 1516 – Tabinshwehti, King of Burma ( d. 1550 )

* 1948 – Burma joins the United Nations.

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

* 1944 – Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1, 000 mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma.

Skull, as illustrated in Reginald Pocock | Pocock's The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma – Mammalia Vol 2

* 1555 – Ava Kingdom falls to Toungoo Dynasty of Burma.

* 1948 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

* 1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.

* 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma

* 1516 – Bayinnaung, King of Burma ( d. 1581 )

* 1988 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.

* 1591 – King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed marked as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.

* 2008 – Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138, 000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.

* 1962 – In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d ' état.

* 1745 – Bodawpaya, King of Burma ( d. 1819 )

* 1942 – World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.

* 2003 – Depayin massacre: at least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma.

* 1945 – World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.

Burma ’ s GDP stands at $ 42. 953 billion and grows at an average rate of 2. 9 % annually – the lowest rate of economic growth in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Railway openings in Burma 1988 – 2008

** Myingyan Junction – Bagan 56 · 1 Serves one of the most important tourist sights in Burma

US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, visited Burma in November – December 2011.

* Documents on the Burma – Russia relationship at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs