Independent media in the junta-run Union of Myanmar, the Southeast Asian nation know formerly as Burma, is nearly a misnomer. News rarely reaches the outside world from the closed country, where ...
The top prizewinner at Intl. Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, "Burma VJ" celebrates the courage of the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), a group of underground journalists who risked their lives to ...
When I recall reporting Burma’s doomed pro-democracy uprising for TIME in September 2007, one image stands out. Amid cheering crowds, a monk holds aloft an upturned alms bowl to indicate his ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. AP Archive, the video footage collection of The Associated Press, has been selected by Democratic ...
It may seem counterintuitive, but Burma has a lot going for it. Blessed with abundant natural resources, the nation is home to the last of the world’s ancient teak forests; it produces tens of ...
It is risky, dangerous and next to impossible for journalists to operate in Myanmar, where the military government suppresses dissenting speech. If you saw some of the startling video in 2007 of ...