If World War I was allegedly fought “to make the world safe for democracy,” World War II seems to have made the world “safe” ...

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 ...

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 Rohingya Muslims ...

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 — 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 ...

In the early days of World War II, the Japanese army invaded Burma (now Myanmar) and forced an end to British colonial rule there. Occupying Burma required troops and massive amounts of materiel, ...

Charles Richards, who has died aged 104, was one of the last surviving Chindits to have taken part in Operation Thursday, the second deep penetration expedition into Burma.

AFTER the debate in the Assembly on Amarnath Dutt’s resolution on the Burma Expulsion Act on Tuesday, the Government of India ...

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 ...