UN experts will assess Hong Kong’s disaster rescue team next year as part of its bid to attain international accreditation to recognise its abilities, with the squad commander saying he is confident about the group’s chances of passing the evaluation. Cheu Yu-kok, commander of the team that was deployed to earthquake-stricken Myanmar last month, said…
A Hong Kong rescue team received a hero’s welcome upon its return to the city on Wednesday night after spending 11 days in earthquake-stricken Myanmar searching for survivors. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu and the top Myanmese diplomat in Hong Kong joined a welcome ceremony at Hong Kong airport, along with family members of the…
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Seven days after an earthquake devastated Turkey in 2023, French volunteers used a suitcase-size radar to locate a survivor under the rubble. It was one of many lives the device helped save in the aftermath of the disaster. The group also rushed volunteers to Myanmar after a powerful earthquake last month leveled buildings, bridge and…
Days before a devastating magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck Myanmar, flattening buildings and killing thousands, a team of Chinese seismologists published a study warning of a heightened risk of such disasters in the area. With the death toll now estimated to have passed 3,000, the seismologists have predicted the March 28 quake will not be the…
STORY: ::Myanmar’s earthquake death toll rises as a search for survivors continues one week on :: Mandalay, Myanmar :: April 5, 2025 Diggers were seen clearing debris at the site of the collapsed “Sky Villa” apartment complex in Mandalay on Saturday, in video obtained by Reuters. A U.N. rights office spokesperson has described the humanitarian…
UN aid chief says the world ‘must rally behind the people of Myanmar’ after a magnitude 7.7 quake flattened buildings and destroyed infrastructure. The death toll from a major earthquake in Myanmar has risen above 3,300 as the United Nations aid chief made a renewed call for the world to help the disaster-struck nation. The…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Day after day, Chinese rescue teams haul children and elderly people from collapsed buildings as cameras beam the thanks of grateful survivors around the world. Russian medical teams show off field hospitals erected in a flash to tend the wounded. Notably absent from the aftermath of the 7.7-magnitude earthquake in the poor…
For years, Myanmar’s army chief, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, has been treated like a pariah on the global stage. General Min Aung Hlaing has made few overseas trips, other than to Russia and China, since he seized power in a coup in 2021. Long the subject of Western sanctions, he has been barred from…
The first Hong Kong Sevens in the new Kai Tak Stadium was a success except for the rule that forbade outside food and drink to protect the concessionaires – who then ran out of, er, food and drink. Blackrock CEO Larry Fink recently wrote to shareholders that “nearly every client” and “nearly every leader” is…