YANGON, Myanmar — Tired of running a nightclub in Geneva, the businessman known as Sharky was looking for a second act. So he returned to his native Myanmar and hatched an unlikely idea: growing and ...

EIGHT NEWS AT NINE ON METV. WELCOME BACK. A METRO RESTAURANT OWNER IS USING FOOD AS A WAY TO SHARE STORIES FROM HER HOMETOWN. IN TONIGHT’S PROJECT COMMUNITY. KCCI’S NICOLE TAM INTRODUCES US TO BURMESE ...

Over the past several years, a friend who moved to Atlanta from San Francisco has often repeated a lament to me. “I just can’t find any Burmese food here,” she would say. I found it to be a surprising ...

Hunger is rising in Myanmar, the impoverished Southeast Asian country that has been ravaged by conflict since a 2021 military coup ousted an elected civilian government. Some 3.6 million people are ...

Last year, as the pandemic set in, Roi San told her husband she’d like to sell the sweet, dessertlike drinks of their native Myanmar out of their Clarkston home. They could advertise the colorful ...

Chinese, Indian, Thai, and Malay influences are obvious on a menu where dishes feature hidden slivers of bird’s-eye chiles, pungent dried fish, and much more that is crunchy, sweet, and sour. In a ...

Entrepreneurs have joined with a real estate professional to open a women-owned Burmese, Thai and Malaysian restaurant on Franklin Street.

Indian, Thai, and Chinese cuisine are all widespread and well known, but a cuisine that incorporates qualities from all three, Burmese food, isn’t nearly as popular in Oregon. Corvallis’s restaurant ...

When you were growing up, you probably saw health posters posted in your school cafeteria advising you to eat your vegetables. Maybe a few compared the sugar in soda with the calcium in milk. But if ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The United Nations food agency said on Friday that more than 1 million people in the war-torn nation of Myanmar will be cut off from food assistance due to critical funding shortfalls.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its ...