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 ...

CHAUNG THA, Burma - He disappeared when he was 12 years old, a skinny boy named Min Thu from the wrong side of town who thought he'd stumbled onto the golden ticket. It began one afternoon when a ...

A Rohingya child is registered at a temporary shelter in Indonesia in May. There are more than 50 million displaced people in the world today, the most since the end of World War II. Yet few of them ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...