The death toll for the devastating Myanmar earthquake soared to more than 1,600 Saturday as rescuers frantically scoured the rubble for survivors.

People in Myanmar's earthquake-stricken areas braced for thunderstorms after rain and wind hampered rescue operations, while many who lost their homes were forced to sleep outside.

Remarkable rescue stories from Myanmar's earthquake ruins are keeping hope alive, but aid agencies say time is running out fast, and the need for help is vast.

Throughout Myanmar’s turbulent past, its poets have weaponised words in the struggle against oppressive regimes. Joe Freeman and Aung Naing Soe have collected the work of a new generation of ...

Nearly half of Myanmar’s people now live in poverty, according to the World Bank. This calamity has forced a new cadre of women in Myanmar into sex work: doctors, teachers, nurses and other ...

The chaotic country is now a magnet for criminal syndicates, particularly from China, destabilizing law enforcement across much of Asia.

A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar on Friday, causing extensive damage across a wide swath of one of the world’s poorest countries and prompting officials to warn that the initial death toll ...

Myanmar’s ruling junta has suppressed information about a severe food crisis gripping the country by pressuring researchers not to collect data about hunger and aid workers not to publish it, a ...

More deaths reported after Myanmar earthquake: 1,600 dead; true toll could be much higher The situation in Myanmar was dire Saturday, according to a report from the United Nations Office for the ...

LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia (AP) — More than 260 weak and hungry Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, have landed in Indonesia in two boats, officials said Monday. Police and military ...

Myanmar’s rapidly changing civil war, in maps and charts Ethnic militias and pro-democracy groups are scoring victories against the governing junta ...

Myanmar earthquake: Another quake, or aftershock of 5.5 magnitude struck Myanmar's Meiktila after the devastating earthquake on March 28. Are aftershocks more dangerous than they seem? Here's all ...