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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Burma Sahib is Paul Theroux's 30th novel - Hamish Hamilton Theroux’s Orwell, 19 years old when the book begins, is a more likeable ...

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 ...

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 ...