The magnitude-7.7 tremor was the strongest with an epicentre on Myanmar’s land mass since 1912, the US Geological Survey ...

Pope Francis’ visit was truly a historic event for the 700,000 Catholics in the Buddhist majority country. He was the first ...

When a massive earthquake hit Myanmar last month, centuries of sacred history tumbled down -- towering Buddha idols, ...

At St. Mary’s Cathedral in Yangon, worshippers recalled Francis as a voice for Myanmar's suffering people and the only pontiff to visit their nation.

Military attacks continue in Myanmar despite ceasefires declared after a 7.7 earthquake that killed 3,700 people, the UN ...

A charred Myanmar hillside is wreathed by flames, spewing ochre smoke that smothers out sunlight in an apocalyptic scene.

Local groups are struggling to cope with the scale of the disaster, while the civil war means international efforts have so ...

Myanmar has been plunged into a many-sided civil war which has killed thousands, displaced millions and seen half the population gripped by poverty. The conflict often fails to register on the ...

Poverty is rampant, the economy shattered, and international sanctions combined with the expense of fighting the civil war have drained the junta's coffers. Much of Myanmar is controlled by a ...

Myanmar’s economy is in ruins, its education and health systems are a mess and the poverty rate has doubled since the junta’s takeover. About 20 million people — more than a third of the ...

In Sagaing, 80 percent of buildings have been destroyed and entire sections of one of the main bridges over the Irrawaddy River have snapped off and sunk into the water, like a child’s broken toy.