Burma in Transition

What is behind Burma's wave of violence?

Following communal riots than killed more than 40 in Burma in March, the BBC's Jonathan Head visits the town where it all began to examine the causes of the violence.

  • 4 April 2013
  • From the section Asia

Q&A: Communal violence

The BBC looks at what lies behind the religious and ethnic tensions that have bubbled to the surface in Myanmar, also known as Burma.

  • 3 July 2014
  • From the section Asia

Timeline: Reforms in Myanmar

Key developments in recent years

  • 8 July 2015
  • From the section Asia

Aung San Suu Kyi

An international symbol of peaceful resistance

  • 13 September 2018
  • From the section Asia

Booming Burma?

  • 17 November 2011
  • From the section Business

Features & Analysis

Displaced and divided

  • 9 November 2012
  • From the section Asia

Time to embrace?

  • 18 November 2012
  • From the section Asia

Reforms 'irreversible'

  • 27 September 2012
  • From the section Asia

My regrets

  • 23 September 2012
  • From the section Magazine

'So excited, I didn't sleep'

  • 1 April 2012
  • From the section Asia

Seeing 'The Lady'

  • 24 March 2012
  • From the section Magazine