A major alliance of ethnic armed groups in northern Myanmar has announced a unilateral one-month ceasefire to allow ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International called on the military junta of Myanmar to facilitate relief efforts and join opposition groups in a partial ceasefire on Tuesday. The 7.7 ...

Myanmar’s military junta should allow immediate unfettered access to humanitarian aid for earthquake survivors and lift ...

The head of Myanmar’s military government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, told a forum for relief donations in Naypyitaw that 2 ...

The head of Myanmar’s military government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, told a forum for relief donations in Naypyitaw that 2 ...

Here’s what to know about the challenges from the natural disaster—compounded by ongoing civil war—and where the country ...

The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been plagued by wars and natural disasters since it became independent from Britain ...

That said, the early reports on the rescue effort seem to bear some comparison to the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, which swept across the Irrawaddy delta in May 2008. At the time, the military ...

It was only hours after Myanmar was hit by its strongest earthquake in a century when the ruling military regime resumed bombing parts of the war-torn country where it lost ...

Boosting faint hopes of still finding survivors, rescue workers pulled a man alive from the rubble of a Mandalay hotel five days after the quake hit.

Naypyidaw — the planned capital fabricated by the generals a generation ago to further insulate themselves from popular rebellion — escaped the catastrophic 2008 Cyclone Nargis, which may have ...