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Basic services have yet to be restored to the areas of Myanmar worst hit by a huge earthquake three weeks ago, and emergency ...
An eyewitness account from an Irrawaddy reporter who traveled in and around Mandalay on the day of the March 28 quake and the ...
Long-shot efforts to find survivors from Myanmar’s devastating March 28 earthquake were winding down Monday, as rescue ...
A video from Chinese rescue workers in Mandalay showed the heavy rainfall and strong winds causing tents to sway dangerously ...
In Myanmar, foreign rescuers have been hauling quake victims from the rubble. Meanwhile, the American aid response, amid ...
Last week’s earthquake only compounds Myanmar’s decades-long disaster of misrule by corrupt and brutal generals.
Search and rescue efforts remained underway Friday ... with magnitudes ranging between 2.8 and 7.5. Mandalay remains the hardest-hit region, with 2,053 deaths and 2,691 injuries.
Five friends defied the junta to care for people injured in the military coup. One returned from the battlefield to find his ...
The journey from Mandalay normally takes 45 minutes by car across the ... Roads connecting towns and outlying villages were torn and twisted, slowing rescue and relief efforts, including the delivery ...
"And in Mandalay, especially, if it starts to rain, people who are buried will drown even if they've survived until this point." There have been 53 airlifts of aid to Myanmar, the embassy in Japan ...
while rescue workers had recovered 16 bodies from Mandalay and treated 104 patients. Russia and India have also set up mobile hospitals. China has used its state media machine to broadcast its relief ...