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An airstrike in central Myanmar kills up to 22 people at a bombed school, reports say
Witnesses and independent media reports say that an airstrike by Myanmar’s military on a village in the country’s central ...
Al Jazeera on MSN10d
Reporting from behind shifting front lines in Myanmar’s civil war
A video journalist with the online news outlet Shwe Phee Myay, he travels to remote towns and villages, collecting footage ...
Disaster authoritarianism: How autocratic regimes deal with earthquakes
An earthquake that struck southeast Asia in late March is thought to have killed more than 3,000 people in Myanmar, a country ...
Amnesty International Australia8d
Myanmar: Life-saving education funding must be restored following USAID cuts
The United States and other governments must urgently find funding for education programmes in Myanmar that were a lifeline ...
CNN18d
Myanmar’s earthquake devastated the war-torn nation. For its reviled military leaders, it has brought opportunity
By some accounts, he barely controls 30% of the country. So when a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on March 28, killing more than 3,700 people and causing widespread ...
Myanmar's army vowed a ceasefire after the earthquake. I saw them break it repeatedly
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville witnesses daily attacks on a rebel-held area ravaged by the country's long-running civil war.
Pew Research Center20d
Facts about Burmese in the U.S.
An estimated 240,000 people in the United States identified as Burmese in 2023, according to estimates published by the U.S. Census Bureau. 1 Burmese Americans are the 14th-largest Asian origin ...
Russia's Rosatom says will proceed with Myanmar nuclear plant despite quake
A plan to build a nuclear power plant will continue in Myanmar, a war-torn Southeast Asian country partly devastated by a massive earthquake in March, the Russian state-owned firm leading the project ...