The following script is from "The New Burma" which aired on October 25, 2015. Bill Whitaker is the correspondent. Rachael Morehouse and Henry Schuster, producers. A turning point is about to take ...

The policeman manning the barbed-wire roadblock at the entrance to Bhumi quarter in Sittwe spells out the rules: if the Rohingya try to leave without a permit, they are apprehended and taken back to ...

Wen-Chin Chang traces the lives of migrants, spies and guerrillas who shaped the hidden history of the China-Myanmar border region.

The civil war ravaging the Asian country hides that it is the epicenter of heroin production, synthetic drug trafficking, and ...

Rep. Young Kim spoke in support of the No New Funds for Burma Act, which would halt international development financing to Burma until its government shows meaningful democratic reforms. She outlined ...

The death toll from the devastating earthquake that rocked Burma and Thailand on Friday has risen sharply to more than 1,650 victims. The earthquake's epicenter was in central Burma, where 1,644 have ...

Living under the thumb of a brutal junta, the average Burmese hardly leads an easy life. But the plight of the country’s ethnic minorities, many of whom once waged long and bloody insurgencies against ...

More than 3,000 people have now died from the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Burma last week, which destroyed thousands of buildings and sent the war-torn country into a deeper humanitarian ...

The story my Burmese family told itself went like this: We’d fled the only home we’d known to escape oppression and danger, only to find ourselves in America, strangers in a strange land. But we did ...

For most nations, the anniversary of a successful independence struggle against imperial overlords would be marked with flag-waving, official celebrations and perhaps even a public holiday. Not so in ...