NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Kim Aris, son of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, about her imprisonment and why he's advocating for her release.

Multiple Western aid agencies said they have struggled to get personnel into Myanmar as the ruling junta leads the response to the country's largest natural disaster in years.

The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been plagued by wars and natural disasters since it became independent from Britain ...

The Myanmar fire department in Naypyitaw said the woman was successfully pulled from the rubble early Tuesday about 91 hours ...

Friday's earthquake was the second most powerful in Myanmar's recorded history after a magnitude 8 quake east of Mandalay in ...

Myanmar was already one of the world’s most challenging places for humanitarian organizations to operate because of civil war ...

The number killed in the quake is sure to rise in a swath extending from China’s Yunnan Province south to the Thai capital of Bangkok.

The toll from Myanmar's earthquake continued to rise on Sunday, as foreign rescue teams and aid rushed into the impoverished country, where hospitals were overwhelmed and some communities scrambled to ...

In early 2021, after a decade of political and economic reforms, Myanmar looked like it was finally beginning to shake off ...

A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar on Friday, causing extensive damage across a wide swath of one of the world's poorest ...

A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar has resulted in at least 694 deaths and significant infrastructure damage. The ...