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BANGKOK: At least 54 people were killed and more than 185,000 buildings damaged in Myanmar by a powerful cyclone last weekend, state television MRTV reported Thursday.Communication difficulties in the affected areas, where infrastructure…

KYAUKTAW, Myanmar: The Bay of Bengal's most powerful cyclone for over a decade was set to make landfall Sunday, with hundreds of thousands evacuated from the coasts of Myanmar and Bangladesh taking shelter from driving winds and…

YANGON: The Myanmar military launched a ferocious crackdown against the country's Rohingya Muslim population in 2017, driving around 740,000 into neighbouring Bangladesh. On Monday US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to officially…

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of the country's independence hero, Gen. Aung San, who was assassinated in 1947, less than six months before the country, then called Burma, became independent from Britain. Suu Kyi,…

NEW YORK: Growing conflict, insecurity, Covid-19, and a failing economy, has rendered some three million Burmese in need of life-saving humanitarian assistance across Myanmar, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said on Monday.…