A 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Burma on Friday, killing more than 2,700 people, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by a civil war. The death toll is expected to rise, but the earthquake hit a ...

The death toll from the devastating earthquake that rocked Burma and Thailand on Friday has risen sharply to more than 1,650 victims. The earthquake's epicenter was in central Burma, where 1,644 have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PLEASANTON — Customers at Experience Burma dip crunchy fried chicken wings into spicy lemon sauce, munch on mouth-pleasing nuts, seeds, garlic and beans in bitter-tart fermented tea leaf salads or ...