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Junta in quake-hit Myanmar extends ceasefire to May 31 - state media
Myanmar's junta has extended a temporary ceasefire to May 31 to support reconstruction efforts following a massive earthquake ...
Myanmar’s earthquake devastated the war-torn nation. For its reviled military leaders, it has brought opportunity
Earthquakes are devastating for those who have lost loved ones, homes and livelihoods, but for military dictators clinging to ...
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Myanmar’s Earthquake Is Handing the Junta a Path Out of Isolation
An earthquake in March devastated Myanmar. It also provided the military junta an opportunity to shore up its regional ...
Few doctors, throttled aid: How Myanmar’s junta worsened earthquake toll
Burmese academic Sophia Htwe spent hours desperately trying to call home from Australia after the 7.7 magnitude earthquake ...
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Myanmar’s poetic revolution
Some of the oldest poems are about war. Verses about warfare were carved onto Sumerian tablets that are more than four millennia old. Japanese samurai also wrote poetry about battles, as did Walt ...
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Fifteen Sri Lankans rescued from cybercrime centres in Myanmar
The Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism Ministry in close coordination with the Sri Lanka Missions in Myanmar and ...
How a ‘supershear’ quake tore through Myanmar
Data reveals why last month’s earthquake was so devastating ...
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‘She cries in her sleep’: Deeper crisis looms beneath devastation from Myanmar quake
An estimated 3,800 people have died as a result of the devastating earthquakes that struck Myanmar on 28 March. Six weeks on, the situation in Myanmar remains dire, with whole communities still ...