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BANGKOK (AP) — The head of Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to around 4,900 prisoners to mark the country's traditional new year, state-run media reported Thursday, and an ...
BANGKOK — Chinese rescuers have freed six people from the rubble of an earthquake in Myanmar, including a child and a pregnant woman, Chinese state media reported Monday, placing Beijing at the ...
MANILA, Philippines — One of four Filipinos missing after last month's devastating Myanmar earthquake has been found dead, the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Wednesday, April 9.
In a world first, 10 cyborg cockroaches were deployed to help the Singapore search and rescue team following the 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar on March 28. These insect-robot hybrids are ...
A total of 98 aftershocks have hit Myanmar since a devastating earthquake struck the country, according to the country's Department of Meteorology and Hydrology on Tuesday. These tremors ranged in ...
Just six months later, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake ripped through central Myanmar. It was the most severe seismic event to hit the country’s mainland in nearly eight decades. So far, more than ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Long-shot efforts to find survivors from Myanmar’s devastating March 28 earthquake were winding down Monday, as rescue efforts were supplanted by increasing relief and recovery ...
Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing met with Muhammad Yunus, head of the Bangladeshi transitional government, amid the latter's efforts to begin the long-awaited Rohingya repatriation. Hlaing ...
Myanmar’s deadly earthquake has exposed the vacuum left by the United States’ retreat from foreign aid, prompting calls for Asean to assert leadership before major powers like China shape the ...
The group also rushed volunteers to Myanmar after a powerful earthquake last month leveled buildings, bridge and centuries-old temples. But the volunteers were stuck at immigration control at the ...
People in Myanmar's earthquake-stricken areas braced for thunderstorms late Sunday, after heavy rains and winds the previous night disrupted rescue and relief operations and added to the misery of ...
Notably absent from the aftermath of the magnitude 7.7 earthquake in the poor and war-racked Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar: the uniquely skilled, well-equipped and swift search-and-rescue ...