Critics say the country’s often-incompetent military government has delayed and restricted the arrival and distribution of crucial aid.

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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.

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.

A China-led crackdown on online fraud rescued thousands from Myanmar this month. But this massive business of grift keeps growing.

Tens of thousands of people from dozens of nations have been trafficked to cyberfraud hubs in Myanmar, where they must con victims or endure brutal punishment.