The Fighting Monks of Vietnam
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A famous expatriate returns to the homeland only to find his dissident brethren refusing to welcome him and accusing him of being a quisling for the Communist regime
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Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched through rain-washed streets on Thursday, taking the lead in monthlong protests that the military junta has so far been powerless to contain.
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In a country plagued by nasty ethnic conflict, an ever more assertive government has found a sturdy ally in hard-line Buddhist monks.
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A close-up chronicle of the most sustained period of street-to-street fighting that Americans have encountered since the Vietnam War.
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YANGON, Myanmar  -- Hundreds of defiant monks marched through Yangon on Tuesday, walking 10 miles through streets lined with cheering crowds, after being barred from Myanmar's most important Buddhist temple, witnesses said.
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At least 70 monks detained and some beaten as security forces sweep through claimed hotbeds of protest movement.
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US marines faced a tough fight Thursday as insurgents began a counterattack timed with an Islamic holy night.
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BANGKOK, Sept. 27 -- The United States and Europe have fiercely criticized Burma's military rulers for clinging to power during another round of pro-democracy protests, this time led by unarmed monks. But closer to home, the junta's Asian neighbors and trading partners -- China chief among them --...
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Hundreds of Buddhist monks protested Wednesday outside the locked gates of Myanmar's most revered temple, challenging the country's military rulers in the most sustained wave of demonstrations in a decade.
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Three Cambodian Buddhist monks and six riot police were hurt on Monday in a fight that broke out when the monks tried to deliver a protest letter to the Vietnamese embassy in Phnom Penh, officials and witnesses said.
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Buddhist nuns joined the growing  protests against Myanmar&#39;s ruling generals on Sunday, a day  after a dramatic appearance by detained democracy icon Aung San  Suu Kyi to pray with monks now leading the marches.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Buddhist monks, who are bound by faith to nonviolence, are grappling with how to rid a temple of a severe ant infestation without killing the insects.
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In a growing campaign against decades of military rule in Myanmar, thousands of Buddhist monks are doing nothing -- literally -- and the generals are getting worried.
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At Bangkok's watery gates, Buddhist monks cling to a shrinking spit of land around their temple as they wage war against the relentlessly rising sea.
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Monks from across Cambodia march in Phnom Penh in support of upcoming trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders.
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Despite an order from Myanmarâs junta to stay out of politics, Buddhist monks returned to the streets today.
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Nearly 10,000 Buddhist monks marched through Myanmar's second largest city, Mandalay, on Saturday, their biggest demonstration since launching a street campaign against the ruling military junta five days ago.