Anwar, the current ASEAN chair holder, spoke with Mahn Winn Khaing Thann in a videocall after Thursday’s talks with the Myanmar junta chief in Bangkok.

The meeting drew sharp criticism from rights groups, who say engaging the junta chief risks legitimizing Myanmar’s brutal military regime.

The March 28 quake reduced much of the regime’s capital to rubble, exposing the rotten foundations of military rule.

Targets of countrywide aerial attacks included monasteries where people gathered over the festive period, with monks and novices among the dead and injured.

Myanmar quake victims brace for worsening weather as rain lashes makeshift shelters and hinders relief operations.

An eyewitness account from an Irrawaddy reporter who traveled in and around Mandalay on the day of the March 28 quake and the ...

As the Myanmar junta’s brutal war against its own people rages on—and as the country reels from the devastating earthquake that has deepened its humanitarian crisis—recent moves by regional actors, ...

Despite its ceasefire, junta airstrikes and shelling have killed over 100 people in less than two weeks since the March 28 ...

Anwar to meet Min Aung Hlaing in Bangkok, pushing for quake relief access and ceasefire extension beyond April 22.

Thingyan festival begins in silence and sorrow as quake survivors face loss, heat, and hardship amid ruined cities and ...

Last week’s earthquake only compounds Myanmar’s decades-long disaster of misrule by corrupt and brutal generals.

It’s the ‘Mandalay earthquake’ insist Myanmar’s nervous generals, for whom the word ‘Sagaing’ has ominous undertones in the ...