Myanmar’s military chief, Min Aung Hlaing, arrives to meet earthquake survivors gathered in the compound of a hospital in Naypyidaw. Hlaing said he expected the death toll to rise and urged ‘any country, any organisation’ to help with relief efforts. Photograph: Sai Aung Main/AFP/Getty Images Source link
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. was going to help with the response to Southeast Asia’s deadly earthquake. But the effects of his administration’s deep cuts in foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department will likely be tested in any response to the first…
As rescue and recovery efforts continue across the Southeast Asia earthquake zone, many people in the Bay Area with ties to both Myanmar and Thailand have been watching with worry and trying to figure out how to help. Wai Phyo, the vice president of the Myanmar Cultural and Community Center in Union City, said Friday…
Myanmar has been hit by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake, which also affected neighbouring Thailand, its tremors felt as far afield as Cambodia and India. Much of the devastation caused by Friday’s quake appeared to be in Myanmar’s ancient capital of Mandalay, close to the epicentre in the Sagaing region, where buildings toppled and infrastructure buckled….
Two powerful earthquakes rocked southern Cuba in quick succession on Sunday, US geologists said, just days after the island was struck by a hurricane that knocked out power nationwide. The quakes cracked walls and damaged homes, but did not appear to have caused any deaths, according to preliminary reports. They left many residents running into…