Htin Kyaw, Aung San Suu Kyi's adviser, has been chosen President of the first civilian government in the new democratic Parliament of Myanmar after 50 years.
Nobel Peace laureate Aung Suu Kyi and her NLD allies are in position to form the first democratically elected government since 1962 after historic November elections.
A group of concerned citizens in northern Burma launched a crackdown on illegal drugs - and accidentally found proof that government authorities are on the take from the drug gangs.
Thousands of mistreated Rohingya Muslims from western Burma overwhelmed the region last year, and it's all about to start again.
Burmese police have detained the teenaged son of a prominent Chinese dissident, apparently while the youth was trying to defect to the United States.
Health officials are deeply concerned about a strain of drug-resistant malaria that has appeared throughout South East Asia.
