Myanmar's ruling military junta is seizing the aftermath of a deadly earthquake as ... the hardest-hit cities and issued a plea for international aid — a move that represents a stark contrast to the ...

Last week’s earthquake only compounds Myanmar’s decades-long disaster of misrule by corrupt and brutal generals.

Myanmar's fire department said 403 people had ... it initially refused to allow in foreign rescue teams or many emergency supplies after Cyclone Nargis in 2008, which resulted in well more than ...

These concerns are based on past experience. In 2008, after Cyclone Nargis killed at least 84,500 people in Myanmar, the junta at the time refused to receive international assistance, lacking the ...

Myanmar’s military government said on Sunday ... In 2008, a military dictatorship refused aid, including from the US, after Cyclone Nargis killed more than 100,000 people. During more recent ...

As quake survivors dig through the rubble for loved ones with their bare hands, the military bombs villages and seeks diplomatic openings In the heartbreak of disaster, Myanmar's hated junta has been ...

It is the military’s way of showing willingness to cooperate with the wider world. In short, disaster diplomacy has kicked in for Myanmar’s military, as it did after 2008’s Cyclone Nagris. That ...

Thomas Andrews, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, said in a post on X that the military’s response to a recent cyclone and typhoon showed its "willingness to ...

Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing meets with earthquake survivors gathered at a hospital compound in Naypyidaw on March 28, 2025. Myanmar’s junta government doesn’t often want others to ...

Myanmar is also one of the countries most severely affected by the climate crisis. In 2008, Cyclone Nargis caused devastating floods, as inland tsunamis ripped children from their parents’ arms ...

The Myanmar rebels — an unwieldy assortment of ... by hills and invulnerable to attack by sea, unlike Yangon. When Cyclone Nargis slammed into the old capital and the nearby Irrawaddy Delta ...

The quake shook a swath of Southeast Asia. Myanmar’s military government said 144 people were killed in just three cities. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the death toll was likely to ...