A major 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck Myanmar, causing damage and casualties across the country and in neighbouring Thailand. The quake happened in central Myanmar at a depth of 6.2 miles just ...

The March 28, 2025, Myanmar earthquake is giving scientists a rare look into how some of the world's most dangerous fault ...

A recent pre-election census could only cover about half the population. It was Tom Andrews, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, who first raised the prospect ...

• Deadly quake hits Myanmar: Rescuers are desperately searching for survivors in Myanmar after the largest earthquake in more than a century flattened buildings. More than 1,600 people are dead, ...

The State Administration Council has been dissolved and a new caretaker government appointed, but the military remains firmly in charge. The U.N. and Myanmar flags flying side by side outside the ...

Just over two years ago, Tom Andrews, a United Nations special rapporteur, raised the prospect of Myanmar as a “failing state” – a claim that angered the junta and its allies who had done their best ...

The Arakan Army (AA), the ethnic armed organization for the Arakan (Rakhine) people, has now seized control of almost all of Myanmar’s Rakhine State, with the notable exceptions of the capital of ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 4 August 2015 Cyclone Komen, which ...

Oct 1 (Reuters) - Hunger is rising in Myanmar, the impoverished Southeast Asian country that has been ravaged by conflict since a 2021 military coup ousted an elected civilian government. Some 3.6 ...

'Alarming' hunger crisis in Myanmar's Rakhine, WFP warns Around 16 million people in Myanmar are acutely food insecure, WFP says Rohingya are arriving in Bangladesh in much poorer health, aid group ...