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: Tortured, humiliated and killed: the women who disappear into Myanmar’s prisons
The military junta has detained thousands of political prisoners since the 2021 coup, and a pattern of gender-based abuses is becoming clear In August 2021, news spread across a Myanmar protesters’ ...
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: 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: PHOTOS: From Bangkok to Mandalay, scenes of destruction from a deadly quake
A massive earthquake rocked the heart of mainland Southeast Asia on Friday, causing deadly destruction in Myanmar and in the Thai capital. The magnitude 7.7 quake struck at 12:50 p.m. Myanmar time.
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 ...
News Myanmar » Mandalay » Politics: What the West Gets Wrong About Myanmar’s Politics of Fear
An intellectual biography of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi argues Myanmar’s tyrants and victims are both bound by fear—an idea Western thinkers have historically overlooked.