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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro on Thursday announced charges of wire fraud conspiracy against ...

More than 5,000 people have fled from eastern Burma into Thailand in recent days as fighting between Burma's army and armed resistance groups has intensified in the border area, Thai media and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The nature of the news cycle and well-meant wishful thinking lends itself to short memories -- as the situation in Burma illustrates. The shuttle diplomacy of the U.N. Special Envoy for Burma ended ...