Myanmar News » Mandalay News Myanmar » Mandalay » Politics: Catholic Relief Services responds to Myanmar earthquake disaster
Speaking from Yangon, Myanmar, on April 1, Cara Bragg described a nation still reeling from the effects of a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that rocked Southeast Asia on March 28. Ms. Bragg is the country ...
News Myanmar » Mandalay » Politics: Without USAID, Myanmar Is Struggling to Recover From Its Massive Earthquake
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Chris Milligan arrived in Myanmar in 2012 with a mandate: Help repair diplomatic ...
News Myanmar » Mandalay » Politics: Myanmar resistance group says it hit a military air base at Mandalay airport with drones
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s main pro-democracy resistance group said Friday its armed wing launched drone attacks on a military air base that shares a compound with an international airport serving the ...
News Myanmar » Mandalay » Politics: Myanmar holds second round of voting in first general election since military takeover
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar began a second round of voting Sunday in its first general election since the military takeover five years ago. Voting expanded to additional townships including some ...
News Myanmar » Mandalay » Politics: Smell of death permeates Myanmar cities after quake kills over 1,600, leaves others buried
MANDALAY, Myanmar (AP) — The smell of decaying bodies permeated the streets of Myanmar’s second-largest city on Sunday as people worked frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of finding ...
News Myanmar » Mandalay » Politics: Voices are starting to emerge from quake-devastated Myanmar. Here’s what we are hearing
A powerful, deadly earthquake struck at the heart of civil war-ravaged Myanmar on Friday, piling fresh misery on an impoverished nation that was cut off from much of the world even before this natural ...
News Myanmar » Mandalay » Politics: A Question in Quake-Wracked Myanmar: Does This Augur the End of the Junta?
In a censored nation that runs on rumor and omens, people in Myanmar wonder whether the latest disaster might be a portent of regime change. By Hannah Beech The dust from the devastating earthquake on ...
News Myanmar » Mandalay » Politics: Major Quake Batters Myanmar; High Toll Is Feared as Buildings Topple
The 7.7-magnitude earthquake near Mandalay, in a country already torn by war, was felt across Southeast Asia, and experts warned there could be tens of thousands dead. A collapsed building in Mandalay ...