Aung San Suu Kyi
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Politics
A rebel-turned-lawmaker keeping peace in Colombia, Myanmar’s elections and Radio Free Europe.
Back in business
Despite the political challenges tainting its name in the West, Myanmar is making steady economic progress – thanks, partly, to new-found friends.
Asia
What Burma needs to worry about in 2016, why Bangkok still rocks and a politician who packs a punch.
Asia
A new wall between two anxious neighbours, an election in Burma and Japan's increased links with Africa.
State of the news
Democracy was supposed to transform journalism in Burma with Myanmar Radio and Television acting as a public-service broadcaster. The reality, however, is a media that’s hardly changed at all.
Diplomacy
The world goes cyber-war, Brazil prepares a new range of submarines and we met Washington's man in Yangon.
Expo 41: The banished world
The notion of exile often evokes a more romantic era but for many leaders, a life banished from their homeland still beckons (fancy hosting a despised Tunisian president anyone?).
Model behaviour
In Burma’s new model capital, inaugurated in 2005, buildings are designed to consolidate the generals’ power. But with small steps towards democracy, could Aung San Suu Kyi one day call it home?
Myanmar mirage
Huge changes have recently taken place in Burma: a new capital rises from the plains, elections have been held and the military junta formally dissolved. But is it all a mirage?
