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Neighboring Thailand, where the holiday is called Songkran, was expected to celebrate with revelry as usual. It sees a mass ...

Myanmar's military said the death toll from Friday's 7.7 magnitude quake reached 2,719 as of Tuesday morning and was expected to surpass 3,000 A man was pulled alive from the rubble of a Myanmar ...

Myanmar's ruling military declared a temporary ... State-run MRTV reported later in the day that another man was saved from the same building, more than 121 hours after the quake struck.

The death toll in disaster-hit Myanmar is set to soar past 3,000 after an earthquake devastated the country, officials say. Food and water supplies are said to be dwindling, sparking fears of a ...

A deadly earthquake on March 28 collapsed buildings in central Myanmar but rumours that the country's most sacred Buddhist site has crumbled are inaccurate. An AFP reporter confirmed the Shwedagon ...

Rescue operations are in full swing following the devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake centred in Myanmar, which, according to official estimates, has claimed more than 1,600 lives. With the death ...

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