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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

After Nationalist China collapsed in 1949, a remnant of the Nationalists’ Eighth and Twenty-Sixth Armies, commanded by General Li Mi, fell back across the border into Burma. In the wild mountains of ...

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 ...

Known globally for headlines about brutal military crackdowns on protestors, incarceration of over 2,000 political prisoners, rampant corruption, ethnic war, press censorship, and shady dealings with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Analysts describe it as the Burmese paradox: How can the rulers of a country so rich in energy, teak, minerals and gems be in such financial trouble? Even as it sits on top of 19 trillion cubic feet ...