On a hot-air balloon ride, Brett Atkinson gets to look down on Myanmar's temples from the heavens.

Colonial charm and Southeast Asian mystery come together in Myanmar, finds Brett Atkinson.

New Zealanders need to be more understanding of religion, an expert says, after a Kiwi was jailed yesterday for insulting Buddha in Myanmar.

A New Zealander jailed for insulting religion in Myanmar says he will appeal against his conviction.

A Rangoon court has upheld charges of insulting religion against a New Zealand bar manager and his two Burmese colleagues.

A New Zealand manager accused of insulting Buddhism in a promotional poster for a bar in Rangoon, Burma, has pleaded not guilty to three charges.

A Wellington man facing up to two years in a Burmese prison after he allegedly insulted Buddhism only moved back to the area in October with his partner and baby daughter.

Marcus Daniell doesn't like talking about Myanmar. In April last year, he spent two days holed up in a Myanmar hotel with Davis Cup team-mate Sebastian Lavie fearing for their safety if they ventured outside.

The New Zealand team comes into next week’s Davis Cup tie against Chinese Taipei in a strong position.

The BBC says it will stand by Jeremy Clarkson after he was reprimanded by British broadcasting regulator Ofcom for yet another racial comment - this time referring to an Asian man as a "slope" during a Top Gear Burma special.

The ANZ Banking Group is bidding for a banking licence in Burma but faces major challenges in doing so.

Comparisons to Cambodia's tourist sites are unavoidable, writes Tim Roxborogh.

Myanmar's countryside hosts a lifestyle that has scarcely changed over centuries, Angela Lock discovers.

After decades of self-isolation, this secret country opens up, writes Tim Roxborogh.

From militant isolation, Burma now admits scrutiny by the outside world's travellers, writes Tim Roxborogh.

Radical Buddhist nationalism is sweeping Burma, and at the forefront of the movement is a group more commonly associated with peace and tolerance: monks.

President Barack Obama has told Myanmar's president during a long-awaited White House meeting that he appreciates the Asian leader's efforts to lead the country on its sometimes difficult path to democracy and assured him of US support.

A cyclone only a day away carries wind and rain that could become deadly. But in dozens of refugee camps that spatter Myanmar's western coast, the order to evacuate ahead of the storm was met with widespread refusal.

Decades of military misrule have left the country's education in a mess. But change is in the air

An Australian woman who survived a Christmas Day plane crash in Burma says there was no warning and she feared she wouldn't make it out of the burning aircraft.

A number of doctors had been killed, some of them deliberately. The burned bodies of three were found a few days after their arrest by the Mukhabarat, Syria's secret police, a month previously in June.

Prime Minister John Key meets with Aung San Suu Kyi at Naypyitaw which is the capital of the South East Asian nation. Mr Key is the first New Zealand Prime Minister to visit the country.

Burma's Democracy leader, Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has thanked New Zealanders for their support in the democracy movement.

Burma's capital Naypyidaw turned on an extraordinary welcome for Prime Minister John Key's visit - the first by a New Zealand leader.

The Government plans to step up development assistance to Burma by creating a $6 million model dairy farm over five years.

John Key began the first visit of a New Zealand Prime Minister to Burma literally walking in Barack Obama's footsteps.

As retirement jobs go, Dame Silvia Cartwright has one of the toughest imaginable: She listens to horrific stories in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Phnom Penh.