On a drizzly Monday morning in Samut Sakhon, a fishing port near Bangkok that is home to many workers from Myanmar, men wearing the traditional Burmese longgyi and women with thanaka daubed on ...
The majority of the casualties are at the epicenter, Myanmar. Meanwhile, the local Burmese community is reacting to the devastation. Faustina Palmatier is the executive director of the Karen ...
Now, members of Fort Wayne’s Burmese community are watching from afar, worried about their loved ones. One local man, Francis Thawn who has family in Myanmar, told WANE 15 he was relieved to ...
Yuu Mee Thaw works at the Burmese Kitchen in the Richmond District but her focus has been on the other side of the world. She usually talks to her mom in Myanmar at a specific time everyday ...