Tuesday 15 April Thingyan in Myanmar
Thingyan is is celebrated at the same time as many other New Years in the region. Thingyan historically marked the changing of the year by…
Myanmar military government defends rule minutes before deadly quake hits | Aung San Suu Kyi
Moments before Myanmar’s deadliest quake in a century, General Zaw Min Tun defended military rule, dismissed war crimes claims, and spoke on the Rohingya.Just before…
UN slams Myanmar’s ruling military for breaching truce amid quake recovery | Human Rights News
The Myanmar army has carried out over 120 attacks after the deadly March 28 earthquake, with more than half of them after the warring sides…
Myanmar’s military drafts thousands in first year of conscription drive | Military News
Bangkok, Thailand – Aung, a high school English teacher, figured it was high time to leave Myanmar the day the military generals who took over…
Myanmar earthquake death toll passes 3,300 as UN calls for help | News
UN aid chief says the world ‘must rally behind the people of Myanmar’ after a magnitude 7.7 quake flattened buildings and destroyed infrastructure.The death toll…
Myanmar confirms 180,000 Rohingya eligible to return, Bangladesh says | News
The 180,000 names were part of a list of 800,000 Rohingya that Bangladesh submitted to Myanmar in six batches, Bangladesh government says.Myanmar has confirmed that…
Myanmar’s military junta chief joins Bangkok summit in rare trip abroad | Military News
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing is under multiple global sanctions and is also wanted by the ICC for crimes against humanity.The head of Myanmar’s military…
Myanmar military declares temporary pause in war with rebels to aid earthquake recovery
A man clambers amid the ruins of a building in Mandalay, Myanmar, on Thursday. The country's military government belatedly declared a cease-fire in its war…
Myanmar leader heads to Bangkok as quake deaths climb to 3,000
Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will travel to Thailand for a regional summit as his country reels from an earthquake that killed thousands and…
Conditions worsen for Myanmar earthquake survivors
Frustration rise among Myanmar's earthquake survivors as they face shortages of clean water, food, medicine and shelter. Source link
‘Desperate conditions’ at hospital near Myanmar’s quake epicentre
Al Jazeera's Tony Cheng has been at a hospital near the epicentre of Myanmar’s earthquake. Source link
Rescuers race the clock as Myanmar earthquake death toll climbs past 1,700 | Earthquakes News
Three days after devastating quake, rescue teams lacking equipment to sift through the debris and help survivors.Myanmar has raised the death toll from last week’s…
Myanmar earthquake kills over 1,600 and leaves countless buried | Earthquakes News
The smell of decaying bodies permeates the streets of Myanmar’s second-largest city as volunteers work frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of…
Smell of death ‘fills the air’ near epicentre of Myanmar earthquake | Earthquakes News
Sagaing, Myanmar – “Now with every gust of wind, the smell of dead bodies fills the air,” says Thar Nge, a resident of Sagaing –…
Aftershocks complicate Myanmar rescue efforts after quake toll tops 1,700 | Earthquakes
NewsFeedAftershocks are making it harder to rescue people in Myanmar, two days after one of its worst earthquakes killed more than 1,700 people. Workers are…
Foreign aid rushed to quake-hit Myanmar as more than 1,600 killed | Earthquakes News
Foreign rescue teams and supplies have arrived in Myanmar to help the impoverished country cope with a magnitude 7.7 earthquake that killed more than 1,600…
Hundreds of Muslims feared dead in Myanmar earthquake, mosques destroyed | Earthquakes News
Hundreds of Muslim worshippers are feared to be among the more than 1,600 people who died in a powerful earthquake which struck central Myanmar when…
Lack of equipment stalls race to save earthquake survivors in Myanmar | Earthquakes News
Mandalay, Bangkok – Rescue workers in Myanmar are struggling to save people trapped beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings in the country’s second-largest city, Mandalay, following…
Watch terrifying moment swimmer is nearly swept off roof in Bangkok as pool water sloshes over during Myanmar quake
THIS is the heart-stopping moment a swimmer was almost swept-off a rooftop in Bangkok after a monster earthquake in Myanmar rocked the city.CCTV footage shows…
Myanmar earthquake: What we know
BBC Burmese ServiceA collapsed multi-storey building in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest cityA huge earthquake has hit central Myanmar.The magnitude-7.7 tremor was felt elsewhere, including in Thailand…