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 — 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.

NAYPYITAW, March 31 — The chief of Myanmar's ruling junta has vowed to hold a free and fair election in December, as he urged armed opponents in a widening civil war to renounce violence and pursue dialogue.

NAYPYIDAW, Jan 1 — Myanmar said its 2024 census found a population of 51.3 million, slightly smaller than 10 years ago, as the junta prepares for promised elections amid ongoing conflict and unrest across the country, the state media reported today.

ATHENS, Nov 27 — The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor has announced that his office seeks an arrest warrant for Myanmar's junta chief over deportation and persecution of Rohingya Muslims, Anadolu Agency reported.

BEIJING, Nov 7 — Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra met Myanmar's junta chief on the sidelines of a regional summit in China today, in a rare overseas trip by a general grappling with a civil war at home.

PHNOM PENH, Sept 28 — Myanmar military leader cum State Administration Council Chairman Senior General Min Aung Hlaing called on all parties to reduce violence and restore peace to woo more tourists to the market, which only received half a million visitors in the first five months of this year.

ANKARA, July 25 — Political parties in Myanmar welcomed the next year general elections pledged by the junta, reported Anadolu Agency.

NAYPYIDAW, Jan 12 — Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing met with a special envoy from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), state media reported yesterday, as Laos takes over chairing the bloc and encouraging peace efforts in the country.

BANGKOK, Nov 11 — A rebel alliance has overrun parts of northern Myanmar, including areas bordering China, with resistance to the military junta notching its most significant win since the 2021 coup, according to a rebel commander, diplomats, and analysts.

BANGKOK, Nov 12 — Myanmar categorically rejects and dissociates itself from the said review on the Five Point Consensus (5PC) and the decision made by the nine Asean leaders at the 40th and 41st Asean Summits and Related Summits in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Friday.

JAKARTA, Sept 23 — Asean foreign ministers will convene here next month for the preparatory meeting in the run-up to the November group summit in Cambodia, Indonesia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said.

BANGKOK, Aug 5 — Asean is deeply disappointed by the limited progress and lack of commitment of the Myanmar junta in implementing the Five-Point Consensus to end the conflict in the country.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 25 — Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) on Sunday issued an open letter relaying their disappointment over the Five-Point Consensus (5PCs) that hardly witnessed any progress in resolving the political and humanitarian situation in Myanmar.

REUTERS, Feb 2 — After an election last November, Myanmar's army chief had faced imminent retirement, as well as the sidelining of the army's favoured political party and foreign calls for him to be tried for war crimes against Rohingya Muslims.

REUTERS, Feb 1 — Myanmar's army declared a state of emergency on Monday as it carried out detentions of senior government leaders in response to alleged fraud during November's general election.