YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar's president called Friday for work on a controversial Chinese-backed hydroelectic dam to be halted and the concerns of its critics settled, in a startling turnaround ...

BALI, Indonesia -- In a breakthrough with a nation long shunned and sanctioned by the United States, President Barack Obama is sending Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Myanmar next month, ...

Rajeshree Sisodia is a journalist and photographer who covers human rights issues. After the invasion of Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld infamously said that "democracy is messy." Secretary of ...

Aye Lae of Mizzima writes about the report naming Myanmar as the world's number one source of internet attacks. The writer quotes some IT experts who believe that Myanmar internet ...

Just a few years ago, Myanmar (also called Burma) was widely seen as an international success story. In March 2011, after half a century of military rule, a quasi-civilian government led by the former ...

Myanmar inaugurated a new civilian system this year after decades of military rule. The new government, led by a former general, Thein Sein, has freed a number of political prisoners, taken steps to ...

Attorney Anita Hill testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on October 11, 1991 about sexual harassment she suffered from her former supervisor Clarence Thomas, who was nominated by ...

Barcamp Yangon 2011 took place last weekend at Myanmar Info-Tech, Hlaing in Yangon. More than 4,000 Barcampers attended the two-day event. News updates, photos, and videos are available on twitter, ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. When Suu Kyi’s party triumphed in 2015, in the first free national elections since ...

The earthquake that struck Burma Thursday night hit one of its more remote regions, once known as the world’s premier producer of opium and its derivative, heroin. The extent of damage within the ...