Malaysia Finds Gravesites In Camps Used By People Smugglers
The gruesome discovery of the sites thought to contain dozens or possibly hundreds of remains of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, follows a similar find this month across the border in Thailand.
View ArticleThe Human Rights Issue A Nobel Laureate Doesn't Want To Touch
Aung San Suu Kyi has been universally praised in her battle for democracy in Myanmar. But she has been conspicuously silent about the worsening plight of the Rohingya minority in her homeland.
View ArticleThai Prosecutors Seek Indictments Against Scores Of Alleged Human Traffickers
Charges have been recommended for more than 100 people after the discovery of mass graves containing the remains of migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar.
View ArticleBarricaded In, Myanmar's Rohingya Struggle To Survive In Ghettos And Camps
Habibullah considers himself lucky. His movements are restricted but he and his family live in their longtime house in a police-guarded ghetto. Many of his neighbors were forced into internment camps.
View ArticleMonsoon Flooding Kills Dozens In Myanmar, Prompting Calls For Help
More than 200,000 people have been displaced by floods and landslides, with at least 46 deaths reported.
View ArticleAung San Suu Kyi's Lofty Goal In Myanmar: To Be 'Above' The President
The country votes Sunday in its most important election in a quarter-century. The best-known politician is barred from the presidency, but Suu Kyi says she'll be calling the shots if her party wins.
View ArticleVotes Still Being Counted, But Aung San Suu Kyi Expects Big Win In Myanmar
The country also known as Burma went to the polls on Sunday for the freest elections in decades. Supporters of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy were already celebrating.
View ArticleOpposition Questions Slow Release Of Election Results By Myanmar's Government
Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the National League for Democracy party, is confident of her party's victory in the historic election.
View ArticleAmid Slow Vote Count, Myanmar Opposition 'Cautiously' Eyes Victory
Opposition supporters believe they have won the country's freest election in more than two decades. But the military still holds 25 percent of parliamentary seats.
View ArticleMyanmar Is Also Known As Burma, But We Won't Keep Repeating That
For years, it's been NPR's style to say that Myanmar is "also known as Burma" at the start of reports about that nation. We don't think that's necessary anymore.
View ArticleEye On The Invisible: A Photographer's Quest To Spotlight The Stateless
Greg Constantine has spent 10 years documenting the world's stateless people. They live without passports, without ID cards, without dignity — but not without hope.
View ArticleYou'll Never Guess The Most Charitable Nation In The World
Hint: It's not the United States. (We're number 2). And it's definitely not a country from the Western world.
View Article'All-Day Breakfast' In Myanmar: Catfish Chowder Loaded With Condiments
The breakfast dish known as mohinga is sold all day long by curbside hawkers who carrying their wares on shoulder poles or bicycle carts, as well as in shops and restaurants in every price range.
View ArticleAung San Suu Kyi's Party Takes Control Of Myanmar's Parliament
The change comes after years of strife — and a weekend of celebration in Myanmar. But by law, Suu Kyi is barred from assuming the presidency.
View ArticleAung San Suu Kyi Apologizes For Not Becoming Myanmar's President
The Nobel Peace laureate released a letter Thursday explaining the situation and apologizing for "not fully fulfilling the people's desire" by becoming their president.
View ArticleMyanmar's Parliament Elects First Civilian President In Decades
U Htin Kyaw is a close ally of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who was barred from running herself by the country's constitution.
View ArticleMyanmar Gets First Civilian Government In Decades
Prohibited by constitutional rules from seeking her country's top post, former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi now becomes Myanmar's foreign minister.
View ArticleMyanmar's Ruling Party Wants To Make Aung San Suu Kyi The 'President's Boss'
Suu Kyi is constitutionally barred from becoming the president. So legislators in her party are proposing a new job that's formally called "state adviser" — and informally called president's boss.
View ArticleRefugees Plant The Seeds Of A New Community In Kansas City
A farming education program aims to help people fleeing violence and persecution establish new roots — figuratively and literally.
View ArticleCasting Aside Cold War Ghosts, Obama Reaches Out To Old Rivals
As his time in office winds down, President Obama has sought to jettison vestiges of the Cold War and reach out to old rivals, from Vietnam to Cuba and beyond.
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