Late last year, an ongoing conflict in southeast Myanmar (Burma) between members of the Karen ethnic minority group and the Myanmar government intensified over the government’s plans to build a new ...

This story appears in the May 2006 issue of National Geographic magazine. I've always believed the best way to know a river is to paddle it, to feel its undercurrents and speed, to take in the ...

KYA HNYAT, Myanmar -- To the residents of Kya Hnyat, a village of thatched-roof huts more than 700 miles up Myanmar's Irrawaddy River, the arrival of the Avalon Myanmar must seem like the coming of an ...

Julian Kirchherr has received funding for his research in Myanmar from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF), the Blakey Foundation and the Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Trust for Health and ...