Eager to break China’s monopoly on tea, the British were actively seeking alternative sources. In the early 19th century, ...

Cardinal Charles Bo, the Archbishop of Yangon in Myanmar, said the divisions in the world are “anti-God, anti-Christian, and ...

National boundaries never mattered before to the local Konyak tribe. “I eat in Myanmar and sleep in India,” says Tonyei Phawang, the Angh, whose house sits on the border. The Indian government ...

TUN is the apex body of five tribes—Angami, Chakhesang, Pochury, Rengma and Zeliang. It claimed that the fencing of the Indo-Myanmar border will disrupt the economic lifelines, isolate ...

The Zo people are an ethnolinguistic group who speak the Kuki-Chin languages, a group of related Sino-Tibetan languages.

Each hill tribe has its own (sub-)language, customs, clothing, and religion, and even between the villages differences occur. The Akha migrated in stages from Yunnan (China), where the great majority ...

Aizawl's Deputy Commissioner has prohibited Myanmar and Bangladesh refugees in Mizoram from obtaining Indian identity ...

between India and Myanmar as one of the factors responsible for it. The FMR, which allowed entry without visa and passport on both sides, began as a system to enable kindred tribes to keep in ...