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Local groups are struggling to cope with the scale of the disaster, while the civil war means international efforts have so ...
The Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF)-operated Field Hospital (HMM), which began operations yesterday in Myanmar’s Sagaing ...
More than 2,700 people have died in the quake which happened near Sagaing and Mandalay, Myanmar's second city. The death toll ...
By Sui-Lee Wee Reporting from Bangkok Three days after Myanmar’s worst earthquake in more than a century ravaged the remote, war-torn city of Sagaing, razing monasteries and apartment buildings ...
Myanmar remains gripped by a civil war and after four years of fighting the military regime finds itself increasingly encircled. But the impact of the earthquake could prove decis ...
The epicenter was recorded in Myanmar’s central Sagaing region, near the former royal capital Mandalay, home to around 1.5 million people, as well as multiple historic temple complexes and palaces.
In Sagaing, 80 percent of buildings have been destroyed and entire sections of one of the main bridges over the Irrawaddy River have snapped off and sunk into the water, like a child’s broken toy.
The Malaysian Armed Forces (ATM) officially established a Malaysian Field Hospital (HMM), via the Humanitarian Aid Operation (Op Starlight III) on April 21, in Myanmar's Sagaing district – an area ...
It’s the ‘Mandalay earthquake’ insist Myanmar’s nervous generals, for whom the word ‘Sagaing’ has ominous undertones in the ...
More than 60,000 high school students in Myanmar have been told they must retake their matriculation exams after their answer papers were destroyed in a March 28 earthquake fire at Mandalay University ...
Rescue workers and survivors have described harrowing scenes while the ruling junta blocks efforts to provide aid to those in ...