Regions / Southeast Asia / Burma
Articles about Burma, ordered by date. 
Myanmar: vampire grins
Blood-red patches stain the streets of Myanmar’s capital Yangon.
Rest for Rashida
The treatment of Myanmar’s Rohingya people has been seen as a genocide in the making. Parsa Sanjana Sajid visits those trapped on the Bangladeshi border.
Southern Exposure
Iqbal Hossein photographs Rohingya refugees, and hears their harrowing experiences.
Progress, interrupted
After enduring decades of repression, Burma’s citizens have granted the NLD government an extended honeymoon.
Burma’s refugees still don’t feel safe
The Burmese government has begun discussions with Thailand about repatriating refugees from camps across the border. Melanie Hargreaves reports.
For their own good
Sophie Cousins reports on different approaches to tackling Burma’s drug addiction crisis.
Land defenders step up in Burma
Caught between a growing economy and the peace process, farmers' land rights are being left behind, writes Erin Kildride.
Minorities report
Burma’s elections this November will be closely contested - but will the country’s ethnic minorities finally be heard? Tina Burrett reports.
Country profile: Burma
Facts, figures, photos and a short history of Burma.
Touch the earth
As reserves dwindle and demand balloons, resource companies are pushing into more remote regions and onto indigenous land. Jen Wilton tours seven hotspots where native people are demanding the right to decide what happens on their ancestral territory.
When Western therapies fail
Is a Western approach the best way to engage with the mental health issues of other cultures? Nick Harvey visits Burmese refugees in Thailand to find out.
Are Burma’s reforms for real?
Changes in Burma over the past year have been astounding, but as the country celebrates 64 years of independence, its people remain far from free.
Poisoned hills
Burmese women expose military’s complicity in the opium trade
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