Amid the world's longest civil war--now nearing 80 years and escalating since Myanmar's 2021 coup--David Small's new memoir, Nameless Faceless People: Ten Years With The Free Burma Rangers (Small ...

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 ...

RANGOON, Burma (AP) — Burma says it has found a rare, white elephant in the jungles of the western Ayeyarwaddy region. Forestry official Tun Tun Oo says the 7-year-old female was captured by his ...

Burma's military government on Saturday activated for the first time a decade-old conscription law that makes young men and women subject to at least two years of military service if called up, ...

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 ...

RANGOON, Burma — President Obama and Burma's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi called Friday for further moves toward democracy ahead of the country's presidential elections next year. The two leaders ...

Burma's military government on Wednesday said it will draft 60,000 young men and women yearly for military service under its newly activated conscription law, with call-ups beginning after the April ...

A Muslim man walks around the ruins of what was once his family's home after waves of violence led against Muslims by Buddhists destroyed and left many buildings in ruins during the riots of March ...