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Yesterday — 7 April 2025Main stream

Why Earthquake Relief Is Slow to Reach Myanmar

7 April 2025 at 22:55
Critics say the country’s often-incompetent military government has delayed and restricted the arrival and distribution of crucial aid.

© Associated Press

People searched through the debris of destroyed buildings in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, on Monday.
Before yesterdayMain stream

After the Fires, Rick Caruso Aspires to a New Role: Shadow Mayor of Los Angeles

The businessman has won supporters and detractors as he considers running for mayor or governor of California as Los Angeles rebuilds from the wildfires in January.

© Mark Abramson for The New York Times

Rick Caruso lost his run for mayor of Los Angeles in 2022.

They Fought to Save Lives in Myanmar. The Earthquake Claimed Theirs.

4 April 2025 at 12:01
Five friends defied the junta to care for people injured in the military coup. One returned from the battlefield to find his four friends among the dead in the March 28 earthquake.

© Sai Aung Main/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A patient at Mandalay General Hospital, three days after the deadly Myanmar earthquake.

Search for Survivors at Collapsed Bangkok Building

The collapse of a 30-story building under construction was “not normal,” an engineering expert said. It was one of the biggest projects ever done by a Chinese state-owned company.

Myanmar Earthquake Toll Surpasses 1,600 Dead Amid Search for Survivors

30 March 2025 at 03:56
Aid workers delivered the first shipments of help to Myanmar, but will have to cross a country buckled by the disaster and divided by civil war, arms dealers and drug syndicates.

Myanmar Earthquake: What We Know About Death Toll and Damage

30 March 2025 at 00:16
The death toll in Myanmar has exceeded 1,600, the country’s military government said. The powerful earthquake also jolted other parts of Southeast Asia.
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