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3 weeks ago | ksl.com | Panu Wongcha-um |Shoon Naing

BANGKOK — Signs of life were detected in the ruins of a skyscraper in Bangkok on Monday as efforts intensified to find people trapped three days after a massive earthquake in Southeast Asia that killed at least 2,000. Scanning machines and sniffer dogs were deployed at the unfinished skyscraper and Bangkok's Deputy Gov. Tavida Kamolvej said rescuers were urgently working out how to access an area where signs of life had been detected three days after the quake.

3 weeks ago | sightmagazine.com.au | Poppy McPherson |Panu Wongcha-um |Shoon Naing |David Adams

ReutersAn armed resistance movement against Myanmar’s military-run government criticised the junta on Sunday for conducting airstrikes on villages even as the country reels from an earthquake that has killed around 1,700 people. The Karen National Union, one of Myanmar’s oldest ethnic armies, said in a statement the junta “continues to carry out airstrikes targeting civilian areas, even as the population suffers tremendously from the earthquake”.

3 weeks ago | independent.ie | Shoon Naing |Wa Lone

Military government says there are around 1,700 fatalities reported so far, with at least 3,400 people injuredThe toll from Myanmar’s earthquake continued to rise yesterday, as foreign rescue teams and aid rushed into the impoverished country, where hospitals were overwhelmed and some communities scrambled to mount rescue efforts with limited resources.

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Shoon Naing |Wa Lone

Mar 31, 2025 – 7.45am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Bangkok | The toll from Myanmar’s earthquake continued to rise on Sunday, as foreign rescue teams and aid rushed into the impoverished country, where hospitals were overwhelmed and some communities scrambled to mount rescue efforts with limited resources.

3 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Shoon Naing |Wa Lone

Bangkok — Foreign rescue teams and supplies arrived in Myanmar on Sunday to help the impoverished country cope with an earthquake that killed more than 1,600 and left many near the epicentre scrambling for help without proper equipment. The 7.7-magnitude quake, one of Myanmar’s strongest in a century, jolted the Southeast Asian nation on Friday, leaving 1,644 people dead, 3,408 injured and 139 missing, the military government said.