Attempts by the regime to more tightly control assistance to people affected by the recent earthquake have had a chilling effect on volunteer aid efforts in Myanmar’s second largest city.

A rescue team in Mandalay, the city closest to the earthquake's epicentre, tells the BBC they "are digging people out with our bare hands".

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Emergency teams had already ended searches for survivors two days after Myanmar’s ... which is located on the Yangon-Mandalay highway. “Eight employees from the No.7 textile factory lost their lives,” ...

Chin rebels are also slowly gaining control of Falan township, which was an important ... defence expert who was associated with the Yangon-based Myanmar Institute of Strategic & International ...

Maung Tu, 40, a manager at a mining company, purchased a betel nut farm of 2.4 hectares, or 6 acres, near the southern tip of ...

Built by regime cronies just two decades ago as a monument to military rule, the Parliament complex failed to withstand March 28 earthquake.

The regime carried out hundreds of attacks on AA-held areas during its truce, killing civilians and bombing towns with jets, drones, and artillery, the armed group said.

Four Indian nationals were repatriated via Yangon after India coordinated with Myanmar authorities to facilitate their exit permits from the Myawaddy compound, the Embassy of India in Yangon ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — More than 60,000 Myanmar students must retake university entrance exams after their answer papers were incinerated in a blaze caused by last month’s earthquake ...

deprived of food and water and otherwise tortured during interrogations in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city. More than 220 journalists have been detained since the army ousted the elected ...