Faith healing: Going cold turkey in Myanmar behind locked doors
NAUNG CHEIN, Myanmar (Reuters) - A year ago, Wun Naung Lay left his village in northern Myanmar to look for work and found heroin instead. Today, the skeletal 25-year-old is...
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Special Report: Myanmar gives official blessing to anti-Muslim monks
YANGON (Reuters) - The Buddhist extremist movement in Myanmar, known as 969, portrays itself as a grassroots creed. Its chief proponent, a monk named Wirathu, was once jailed by the...
Myanmar minister backs two-child policy for Rohingya minority
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar's Immigration Minister has expressed support for a controversial two-child limit on a Muslim minority group that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the United...
Myanmar minister backs two-child policy for Rohingya minority
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar's Immigration Minister has expressed support for a controversial two-child limit on a Muslim minority group that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the United...
Insight: Presidency beckons for Jakarta’s rags-to-riches governor
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, the governor of Jakarta, might well be the future of Indonesian democracy. Here's why. On a recent afternoon he visited Tambora, a densely populated...
Insight: Little optimism for breakthrough in Thailand’s forgotten jihad
DUKU, Thailand (Reuters) - Rusnee Maeloh slept through the 30-minute gunfight that killed her husband, but her neighbors in the notoriously violent Bacho district of southern Thailand heard distant explosions...
Special Report: Myanmar’s deep mine of old troubles
Pyinyananda was chanting with dozens of fellow Buddhist monks when an object landed in the folds of his orange robes and blew up. The canister contained tear gas, the police...
Special Report: Myanmar’s deep mine of old troubles
Pyinyananda was chanting with dozens of fellow Buddhist monks when an object landed in the folds of his orange robes and blew up. The canister contained tear gas, the police...
Myanmar’s Thein Sein, junta henchman to radical reformer
BANGKOK (Reuters) - There is a Jekyll-and-Hyde quality to President Thein Sein, the bookish-looking former general Barack Obama will meet on Monday during the first visit by a U.S. president...
Myanmar’s Thein Sein, junta henchman to radical reformer
BANGKOK (Reuters) - There is a Jekyll-and-Hyde quality to President Thein Sein, the bookish-looking former general Barack Obama will meet on Monday during the first visit by a U.S. president...