BANGKOK — The head of Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to around 4,900 prisoners to mark the country's traditional new year, state-run media reported Thursday, and an independent ...

Authorities in Myanmar have held a minute of silence to honour the victims of a catastrophic earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people, including 50 children at one preschool near the city of ...

Rescuers were still pulling survivors from the rubble when one of several aftershocks struck on Sunday, sending people in Mandalay — Myanmar’s second-largest city and the epicenter of Friday ...

BANGKOK — The death toll from a 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar climbed to more than 2,700 Tuesday, as the scale of the destruction in the isolated, war-torn Southeast Asian nation became ...

The Myanmar army has carried out over 120 attacks after the deadly March 28 earthquake, with more than half of them after the warring sides declared a temporary ceasefire in the civil war on April ...

BANGKOK — The death toll from the earthquake that hit Myanmar nearly a week ago rose Thursday to 3,145 as search and rescue teams found more bodies, the military-led government said, and ...

The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar has swollen to 1,644, military officials say. The tremor, which tore though Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city ...

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake centered in Myanmar reverberated across Southeast Asia on Friday, with the scale of destruction slowly coming into view in the isolated and war-ravaged nation.

Meanwhile, in Myanmar, first responders are trying to find people trapped in the wreckage of collapsed structures. The grim reason it takes a long time to confirm an earthquake’s death toll is ...

Three days after a devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Southeast Asia, drones and special equipment have detected signs of life, prompting an all-out race to find the survivors. NBC’s Janis ...

By contrast, hours after Friday’s quake in Myanmar, personnel who were preparing a response received termination notices as part of budget cuts. Relationships with groups that would usually ...

Standing amid the rubble of a historic temple in Mandalay's ancient city of Inwa, a local guide and resident said on Sunday (April 6) that the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar just ...