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 ...

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Burma on Friday, killing more than 2,700 people, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by a civil war. The death toll is expected to rise, but the earthquake hit a ...

It was a clear morning last February when Tay Za boarded his private helicopter to tour a frozen lake in the far north of Burma, where he owns a luxury mountain lodge. The songs from the previous ...

Burmese Buddhist monks protest against an influx of Rohingya migrants by boat. EPA/Nyunt Win The very word “Burma” was once shorthand for a brutal military dictatorship, but things have now changed ...

MPs representing the military arrive for a parliamentary session in the Naypyidaw, Burma, June 20, 2014. It’s one of the largest parliamentary complexes in the world, a legislature whose colossal size ...

Kumar is an executive editor at TIME. Rohingya Muslims who have fled from violence in Burma take shelter at the Leda unregistered Rohingya camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on Dec. 5 2016 Kumar is an ...