The Burmese poet Maung Saungkha does not have a tattoo of Myanmar’s President on his penis. At least, that is what he has told everyone who has asked him recently. He may soon have to prove it in ...

Pro-democracy protesters hold a flash mob rally to protest against Myanmar’s military-installed government, at Kyauktada township in Yangon, Myanmar on December 20, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/File In late ...

Published in 2025 by Bangkok-based River Books, "Frontline Poets: The Literary Rebels Taking on Myanmar's Military" fills part of this silence by focusing on unsung figures within the resistance: ...

It’s a moody afternoon in late spring, and Maung Saungkha, the famous “penis poet” of Burma, is in a hurry to stay ahead of the next downpour. After a full morning of punishing rain that feels like we ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's ambassador to Myanmar was forced to interrupt Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson earlier this year as he tried to recite a nostalgic colonial poem by Rudyard Kipling in ...