A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday, resulting in mounting casualties and flattened skyscrapers from Myanmar to Thailand. The epicenter was in Mandalay, ...

Ko Ko Gyi, chairman of the People’s Party and a former 88 Generation Students leader, on Sunday morning cast his vote at a polling station in Yangon’s Lanmadaw Township, where he is running for a seat ...

BANGKOK -- A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Myanmar and neighboring Thailand Friday, destroying buildings, bridges and a monastery. The death toll in Myanmar has jumped to nearly 700, ...

BANGKOK (AP) -- Myanmar's shadow National Unity Government, which coordinates the popular struggle against the ruling military, announced a unilateral partial ceasefire Saturday night to facilitate ...

A devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar on Friday has claimed more than 1,700 lives, with another 3,400 injured and over 300 missing, the country’s military government said on ...

MANDALAY, Myanmar (AP) -- The smell of decaying bodies permeated the streets of Myanmar's second-largest city Sunday as people worked frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of finding someone ...

BANGKOK — The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been plagued by wars and natural disasters since it became independent from Britain in 1948, when it was still called Burma. Relief efforts from ...

BANGKOK — The death toll in last week’s massive earthquake in Myanmar has passed 2,000, state media reported Monday, as rescuers and an activist group said it killed several hundred Muslims praying at ...