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…
A rescue team from Hong Kong headed to the capital of earthquake-stricken Myanmar on Sunday and would survey the situation on the ground first. The 51-strong team and two search dogs arrived in the country’s biggest city, Yangon, at around 9pm local time on Saturday and embarked on a 10-hour coach journey to the capital…
BANGKOK (AP) — The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to over 1,000 on Saturday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed when it struck near the country’s second-largest city. The country’s military-led government said in a statement that 1,002 people have…