"burmese" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is commonly used as an adjective to describe something related to Burma (now known as Myanmar), such as "burmese cuisine" or a "burmese cat". An example sentence using this word would be: "For dinner, I'm preparing a delicious burmese curry."
Monwara, a 25-year-old woman, says that last month Burmese soldiers held her and her eight-year-old daughter overnight.
Instead I booked myself on a 10-day silent meditation retreat run by a Burmese monk in Thailand.
In March last year Clarkson was accused of "casual racism" during a Top Gear special in which the team built a bridge over a Burmese river.
Amnesty is calling for the immediate release of Burmese human rights activist U Myint Aye, who is serving a life sentence for his alleged involvement in planning a bomb attack in the Shwepyitha Township in Yangon on 1 July 2008.
He joined an elite list of people to receive the honour, including Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi, former Olympic champion Steve Ovett, and first world war hero Henry Allingham, who became the world's oldest man before his death aged 113 in 2009.
The US deputy secretary of state, Antony Blinken, will also be in Burma and said during a visit to Jakarta on Wednesday that he would raise the treatment of the Muslim Rohingyas in the western Rakhine state with the Burmese government.
Riyadh must endure unceasing bad publicity about cases such as that of the Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, sentenced to 1,000 lashes, and the recent street beheading of a Burmese woman.
At last, ordinary Burmese can aspire to share a better future quite possibly with Miss Suu Kyi as president in 2015.Myanmar's is a top-down revolution and many of its motives are unclear.
But then on January 31st, after months of deliberation, the 109-member parliamentary committee charged with gathering opinions on constitutional change issued a report purporting to show that most Burmese were against changing the clause.
When the Burmese army threw out all the princes, he changed sides, and in the anarchy of Shan state in the 1960s he became captain of a militia of 3,000 men.
