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More than 200,000 people have been displaced after a powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on March ...
John Moe The, who has a TikTok following of more than 300,000, forecast that a "very strong" quake would hit "every city in ...
A resident in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, told the BBC the shakes were "quite intense" and lasted for around four minutes. Speaking to the BBC World Service's Newsday programme, the man, who ...
Myanmar is a country that doesn’t often show up on the average Southeast Asian travellers’ itinerary, but it is by far one of ...
As the country’s former capital until 20 years ago, Yangon still has a number of functioning ministerial buildings ...
James Hookway is a foreign news editor at The Wall Street Journal.
Around 80 percent of Naypyitaw’s ministerial buildings were allegedly left unusable by the March 28 earthquake.
The head of Myanmar’s military government has granted amnesty to around 4,900 prisoners to mark the country's traditional new ...
Military authorities released Kamayut Media’s Hanthar Nyein and 22 political prisoners in various parts of the country as ...
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As Catholics filed into Myanmar's grandest cathedral to mourn Pope Francis on Tuesday, a wartime power cut plunged the worship hall into a murky gloom.