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Show more Show less People bathe in the Irrawaddy River in front of the collapsed Ava Bridge in Sagaing Crowds jostled through traffic and braved scorching heat in a race to secure vital aid in a ...
It has long been a draw to foreign visitors who flocked across the Irrawaddy River from Mandalay by boat to admire it. Today, soldiers are camped beside the mighty monument, barring access.
There was a boat trip across the Irrawaddy River to Mingun, where there’s the beautifully ornate, pearl-white Hsinbyume Pagoda, a 90-tonne bell and immense 50-metre-high stupa. Climbing to the top, ...
People living along the Kok River in Thailand’s Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai provinces have been advised not to use water from the river for consumption due to the excessive amounts of arsenic it ...
Many buildings fell down, and large cracks appeared on the roads, making rescue work even harder. The fall of the Ava Bridge over the Irrawaddy River also delayed help from reaching those in need. Tin ...
The Ava Bridge in the city has also collapsed into the Irrawaddy River. A Bhutan medical volunteer attends to a patient at their make-shift tent after last week’s earthquake in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, ...
Protesters displayed a banner calling Myanmar's junta chief a "murderer" as he joined a regional summit in Bangkok on Friday, a week after a huge earthquake killed thousands and left desperate ...
Infrastructural collapse: Destruction of a large bridge over the Irrawaddy River, a key transportation route in the country, ranks as one of the most vivid images. Locations and structures damaged ...
I was dancing, crying and beating my chest because I was so happy," she said. Elsewhere, earthquake victims in Sagaing took to the banks of the Irrawaddy River as the sun set, bathing and washing ...