Myanmar Emerges is a year-long GlobalPost investigation into challenges facing Myanmar's nascent democracy. Part One of the series, The People vs. The Power, examines the battle between villagers and a Myanmar and Chinese government-backed mining company they say is stealing their land and ruining the environment.

During five decades of military dictatorship in Myanmar, dissident speech was a crime punishable by long years in prison. In response, defiant, highly literate political dissidents turned to the arts to express their opposition. 

Driving a bus in Guatemala is the most dangerous job in the world, according to InSight Crime, which monitors organized crime in the Americas.

A new solar oven being introduced in Madagascar helps prevent deforestation while storing energy from the sun.