Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will meet with the head of Myanmar’s military junta in Bangkok this week, to push for the extension of a ceasefire and discuss earthquake relief efforts. During a monthly meeting of the Finance Ministry yesterday, Anwar announced that he would meet Senior Gen. Min AungContinue Reading
“We’re not the government of the world,” Marco Rubio told a BBC reporter at NATO Headquarters in Brussels on April 4. The U.S. Secretary of State defended a modest $2 million contribution for Myanmar, recovering from a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that killed more than 3,500 people. The State Department later softenedContinue Reading
For Myanmar and its people, the earthquake that struck central Myanmar on March 28 was not an isolated event but part of an unrelenting cycle of crises. People and landscapes in Sagaing Region, at the earthquake’s epicenter, had already irrevocably changed in the four years since the coup. Once aContinue Reading
Since the devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar two weeks ago, the official death toll now exceeds 3,600 – and the real number is likely to be much higher. Many ancient cultural and religious sites have been completely destroyed. Homes have collapsed. Thousands of people are sleeping in the open airContinue Reading
Myanmar’s military junta has confirmed its plans to hold an election in December, as the country struggles to come to grips with the significant damage from last month’s powerful earthquake. In a notice published in the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar yesterday, the Union Election Commission (UEC) reaffirmed itsContinue Reading
Extreme weather is complicating efforts to provide relief for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the March 28 earthquake in Myanmar, as the death toll from the disaster exceeded 3,600. As the week began, efforts to find survivors among the rubble of collapsed buildings had been supplanted by activitiesContinue Reading
In October 2017, senior representatives and military officers from the six member states of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) – Thailand, India, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal – met in New Delhi for the forum’s first multinational disaster management exercise. ItContinue Reading
Each month, ACLED’s Asia Pacific Team collects information on the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events in the region. Details below on significant developments in March 2025 in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, South Korea and Thailand. Bangladesh: Militant activity heightensContinue Reading
On March 28, Myanmar was devastated by a catastrophic 7.7 magnitude earthquake so severe that significant tremors were felt in Bangkok, Thailand, more than 1,000 kilometers from the quake’s epicenter. This shock comes in the midst of an ongoing civil war, and as parts of the country are still recoveringContinue Reading
On March 28, what is being called a once-in-a-century earthquake struck central Myanmar, devastating huge swathes of the war-torn country. The cities of Mandalay and Sagaing, along with the administrative capital Naypyidaw and villages in the famed Inle Lake region in Shan State have seen widespread and catastrophic death andContinue Reading
