MANDALAY, March 29 — Rescue efforts have intensified in Myanmar despite severe disruptions to transportation and communication networks following a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck the country yesterday afternoon, Xinhua reported.

BANGKOK, March 29 — Foreign rescue teams began flying into Myanmar on Saturday to aid the search for survivors from an earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people in the impoverished Southeast Asian nation crippling critical infrastructure amid a grinding civil war.

BANGKOK, March 29 — A powerful earthquake killed more than 140 people in Myanmar yesterday, authorities said, toppling buildings and wrecking infrastructure across a wide area, including a skyscraper under construction in neighbouring Thailand.

BEIJING, March 29 — China stands ready to do its best to provide emergency humanitarian assistance and support to the affected area in Myanmar in light of their need to help people there carry out disaster relief and rescue and pull through this trying time, a Chinese Foreign ministry spokesman said yesterday.

PUTRAJAYA, March 29 — Malaysia will deploy two teams from the National Disaster Management Agency (Nadma) to Myanmar to support ongoing humanitarian and disaster relief efforts following the deadly earthquake that struck central Myanmar, northern Thailand, and parts of southern China.

JAKARTA, March 29 — Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has expressed his condolences and pledged support following a powerful earthquake that struck Myanmar and Thailand.

SINGAPORE, March 29 — Singapore is prepared to deploy its Operation Lionheart contingent to assist with urban search and rescue operations as well as disaster relief efforts in Myanmar following the massive earthquake on Friday, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

NEW DELHI, March 28 — India has offered to help earthquake victims in Myanmar and Thailand, after a quake with a 7.7 magnitude struck the region on Friday, reported the German Press Agency (dpa).

GENEVA, March 24 — Two United Nations agencies said today that any shortfalls in funding from global donors could have dire consequences for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

GENEVA, March 18 — The United Nations migration agency said today that unprecedented cuts in donor funding this year will force it to scale back or shut down projects around the world, resulting in a severe impact on migrants.

BRUSSELS, March 18 — Donors at a European Union-led conference yesterday pledged €5.8 billion (RM28.09 billion) to help Syria’s new authorities as they struggle with humanitarian and security problems after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

WASHINGTON, March 18 — Washington’s decision to pause US foreign aid has “substantially disrupted” supply of HIV treatments in eight countries, which could soon run out of these life-saving medicines, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 — Eight humanitarian workers from the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organisations (Mapim) were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, on Saturday (March 15).

CAIRO, March 10 — Israel’s suspension of goods entering Gaza is taking a toll on the Palestinian enclave, with some bakeries closing and food prices rising, while a cut in the electricity supply could deprive people of clean water, Palestinian officials said.

WASHINGTON, Mar 4 — A senior official with the United States Agency for International Development in an email on Sunday warned the Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency will result in unnecessary deaths — only to email his staff less than 30 minutes later to say he had been placed on leave.

ISTANBUL, March 2 — The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has called on the international community to “take responsibility and pressure Israel into allowing a sustained flow of aid into Gaza and prevent Tel Aviv from weaponising hunger to advance its political agenda.” According to Anadolu Ajansi,...

GENEVA, Feb 29 — US aid cuts are having an extreme and immediate impact on thousands of children in Haiti as violence spirals and more youth are recruited by armed gangs, the United Nations children’s agency Unicef warned today.

LONDON, Feb 21 — The United States government’s foreign aid freeze has upended the supply chain for medical products crucial for fighting diseases including HIV and malaria in some of the world’s poorest countries, and life-threatening gaps could persist for months, according to two sources familiar with the sector.

ANKARA, Feb 14 — The Palestinian group Hamas said on Thursday that it is ready to resume the next hostage release on Saturday if Israel adheres to the terms of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, Anadolu Agency reported.

GENEVA, Jan 31 — The United Nations Palestinian relief agency said its humanitarian work across the occupied territories and Gaza is ongoing today despite an Israeli ban that took effect a day before and what it described as hostility towards its staff.