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 ...

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 ...

Burma Burma celebrates the Thingyan Festival with a limited-edition menu inspired by Burmese traditions. Featuring rice bowls ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...