Yet on a social occasion you will often find that the Burmese women cluster together on one side of the room and leave their men to talk to each other in a group of their own. You will see ...

So it is with other associations: for example, the relationship between men and women. There is no “battle of the sexes” in Burma. Burmese women feel the spiritual superiority in a man.

The scene may not be uncommon in many parts of Asia, but was until recently rare here in isolated Myanmar, where economic desperation is increasingly pushing young women into a sex trade that ...

Women in Myanmar have been tortured, sexually harassed and threatened with rape in custody, according to accounts obtained by the BBC. Five women who were detained for protesting against a ...