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 ...

Burma Burma, a Burmese restaurant chain in India, has raised Rs254.6m ($2.94m) in equity funding to expand its presence nationwide. The investment round was led by Negen Capital, with contributions ...

Buddhist monks and other people take part in a protest to demand the revocation of the right of holders of temporary identification cards to vote in Rangoon, Burma, on Feb. 11, 2015 The rise of a ...

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 ...

An officer from the Ta'ang National Liberation Army stands at attention with his soldiers during a morning gathering in a military camp It was a late night in February when some 50 government soldiers ...

Burma's military junta is one of the world's most brutal authoritarian regimes. The government of Burma routinely and systematically violates the human rights and civil liberties of its citizens. Yet ...

This column was written by Joshua Kurlantzick. For days, thousands of average Burmese and respected Buddhist monks parade through the streets of Burmese cities, calling for democracy and picking up ...

Andrew Selth is a Research Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute. Given the spate of articles in the news media which connect the anti-Muslim riots in Burma last week with the sectarian violence in ...

It’s rare to see the United Nation’s top diplomat take the uncomfortable step of telling the Security Council, the world’s most powerful political body, what to do. But, that’s exactly what UN ...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls it Burma. But when her words are reported on NPR, the network refers to the country in Southeast Asia as Myanmar. A listener doesn't like it. "In clips ...