Recovery efforts from the earthquake in Myanmar are slow-moving. The country is grappling with the natural disaster plus an ongoing humanitarian crisis amid the civil war since 2021. The death toll has now risen past 2,

After Cyclone Nargis pounded Myanmar’s south-western coast in 2008, the country’s military rulers turned away US warships laden with supplies and waited weeks before accepting aid that they feared would be a cover for regime change.

The North Carolina-based Evangelical humanitarian aid charity Samaritan s Purse is dispatching an emergency field hospital to Myanmar following a catastrophic 7 7-magnitude earthquake that has

The U Hla Thein Buddhist monastery in Mandalay was destroyed during the quake while an estimated 270 monks were taking an exam. According to The Associated Press, some 70 monks were able to escape. However, 50 were found dead and over a hundred more are still buried underneath the rubble.

STORY: Patients lie on hospital beds out in the open in a makeshift ward at Mandalay hospital in quake-hit Myanmar. It's amid fresh concerns by the UN about a shortage of shelter, clean water and medicine as the war-torn country responds to the massive disaster.

UNICEF is rushing emergency supplies to families struggling to survive the aftermath of Myanmar’s deadliest earthquake in decades.

Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar’s capital on Tuesday, but hope was fading of finding many more survivors of the violent earthquake that killed more than 2,

Then, at 12:51 local time (06:21 GMT), a deadly earthquake struck. Three mosques collapsed, including the biggest one, Myoma, killing almost everyone inside. Hundreds of kilometres away, the former imam of Myoma mosque, Soe Nay Oo, felt the quake in the Thai border town of Mae Sot.