The following script is from "The New Burma" which aired on October 25, 2015. Bill Whitaker is the correspondent. Rachael Morehouse and Henry Schuster, producers. A turning point is about to take ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. BURMA --More ...

An officer from the Ta'ang National Liberation Army stands at attention with his soldiers during a morning gathering in a military camp It was a late night in February when some 50 government soldiers ...

A woman shows her inked finger after casting her ballot during general elections in Rangoon, Burma, Nov. 8, 2015 In the shadow of a pagoda and a mosque, not long after dawn had broken in downtown ...

More than 3,000 people have now died from the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Burma last week, which destroyed thousands of buildings and sent the war-torn country into a deeper humanitarian ...

Burma's military junta is one of the world's most brutal authoritarian regimes. The government of Burma routinely and systematically violates the human rights and civil liberties of its citizens. Yet ...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls it Burma. But when her words are reported on NPR, the network refers to the country in Southeast Asia as Myanmar. A listener doesn't like it. "In clips ...

It’s rare to see the United Nation’s top diplomat take the uncomfortable step of telling the Security Council, the world’s most powerful political body, what to do. But, that’s exactly what UN ...

This week, the military upended years of quasi-democratic rule in Myanmar, with soldiers taking control of the country in a carefully orchestrated coup. The military said the seizure of power was ...

Burma is named after the Burmans ― the majority ethnicity in their nation. However, there are 146 other ethnicities with whom they live. The Burmese overthrew their socialist dictatorship 10 years ago ...