An air route known as the Hump, which passed over the Hengduan Range on the eastern fringes of the Himalayas, replaced the ...
New details have emerged regarding the female customer who was subjected to physical assault by a soldier, identified as WOI ...
As Burma heads to historic elections, Bill Whitaker reports on the country's democratic movement and the woman most responsible for it, Aung San Suu Kyi (Original air date: Oct. 25, 2015) The ...
Security analyst Andrews Asiedu Tetteh has claimed that the riot which occurred outside the Hwidiem Police Station on ...
About two years ago, Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, hoping to weld the neutralist nations into a dynamic third force in international politics, made state visits to India and Burma. His reception here ...
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 ...
The country many of us knew as Burma, a forgotten backwater for most Americans, is suddenly in play. Long a Chinese acolyte, the military-dominated government last month canceled a huge ...
In 1945, after three long years of war, the fight between the Allied forces and Japan over Burma finally ended. Japan was ...
The rise of a sometimes violent anti-Muslim movement has tarnished Burma’s transition from a military dictatorship toward democracy. But the country’s hard-line nationalists now find themselves ...
It’s one of the largest parliamentary complexes in the world, a legislature whose colossal size stands in inverse proportion to the actual work that occurs within its marbled halls. Each morning it’s ...
This week, the military upended years of quasi-democratic rule in Myanmar, with soldiers taking control of the country in a carefully orchestrated coup. The military said the seizure of power was ...