BANGKOK — A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar and neighboring Thailand on Friday ... causing water levels to rise in the lowland areas. Residents of Yangon, the nation's largest city, rushed out of ...

A few months after the army took power, Thein Aung, the chief finance officer of Myanmar’s military-linked Mytel Telecommunications Co., and a retired major from the army, was fatally shot by three ...

After widespread reports of building collapses from the March earthquake, markets for real estate and apartment rentals in ...

The second Myanmar Power and Solar Energy Storage Lighting Expo 2025 kicked off on Thursday in Yangon. The expo featured a wide range of products, including lithium batteries, inverters ...

YANGON: (Bernama-Xinhua) Myanmar authorities have seized 350,000 stimulant tablets in Yangon region, Xinhua reported, quoting the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) on Sunday (April 27).

Yangon, Myanmar, March 31, 2025 — Reports from International Rescue ... Telecommunication lines are unreliable, especially in downtown areas, and there is no electricity at all. “Hospitals are ...

In the Sagaing region just southwest of Mandalay, a 90-year-old bridge collapsed, and some sections of the highway connecting Mandalay and Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, were also damaged.

Global New Light of Myanmar, said five cities and towns had seen building collapses and two bridges had fallen, including one on a key highway between Mandalay and Yangon. A photo on the newspaper ...

Min Aung Hlaing said Myanmar was ready to accept assistance. A 37-member team from the Chinese province of Yunnan reached the city of Yangon early Saturday with earthquake detectors, drones and ...

The decision was made due to the political situation in Myanmar, and all investments in the project have been written off, the report said. Regarding the shelved project in downtown Yangon ...

People queueing to withdraw money from ATM machines in downtown Yangon in April 2021, months after the military coup. In addition, less than half of the population has electricity access, compared to ...