Local groups are struggling to cope with the scale of the disaster, while the civil war means international efforts have so ...

YANGON, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar authorities have seized 2.2 kg of heroin in Sagaing region, the state-run daily Myanma Alinn reported on Wednesday. Acting on a tip-off, anti-narcotics police ...

More than 2,700 people have died in the quake which happened near Sagaing and Mandalay, Myanmar's second city. The death toll ...

The Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF)-operated Field Hospital (HMM), which began operations yesterday in Myanmar’s Sagaing ...

Nearly quarter of a million people who fled war-torn Shan State and Sagaing Region for Mandalay city are now struggling for ...

Striking in Myanmar’s central Sagaing Region on March 28, the quake killed at least 3,649 people, with more than 5,000 injured and 145 still missing, according to figures from the military ...

A humanitarian worker talks to AsiaNews about the situation in the areas affected by the earthquake that struck in late March ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Rescue workers and survivors have described harrowing scenes while the ruling junta blocks efforts to provide aid to those in ...