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.

The 2XU New Zealand Davis Cup team has been controversially awarded a victory against Pakistan.

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.

Prime Minister John Key had an informal discussion with US President Barack Obama in Phnom Penh this morning and the issue of Kim Dotcom appears to have been discussed.

John Key last night had a meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, a drink with Australian PM Julia Gillard and dinner with Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong.

United States President Barack Obama will open Trans-Pacific Partnership talks in Cambodia while new negotiations offer up India, Japan and South Korea.

Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully was briefed on the need to seize Kim Dotcom's assets at the time his officials were worried rejecting requests might upset the US.

It's not hard to see why Rudyard Kipling felt moved to employ a little license in his famous poem, writes Rosemary Cooper.