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BANGKOK: International aid began to arrive in Myanmar on Saturday (March 29) as rescuers searched for survivors after a powerful earthquake devastated the South-east Asian nation amid concerns the number killed would soar.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - 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.
YANGON: The death toll from a powerful earthquake in Myanmar reached 1,002, with 2,376 injured and still 30 missing as of Saturday (March 29), according to the Information Team of Myanmar's State Administration Council.
BANGKOK (Reuters) -A powerful earthquake killed more than 140 people in Myanmar on Friday, authorities said, toppling buildings and wrecking infrastructure across a wide area, including a skyscraper under construction in neighbouring Thailand.
A total of 1,644 people died, 3,408 were injured, and 139 remained missing in a powerful earthquake in Myanmar, Xinhua reported, quoting the Information Team of the State Administration Council on Saturday night.
HOUSTON, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Patrick Crusius, the shooter who killed 23 people in 2019 at a Walmart in El Paso, U.S. state of Texas, was offered a plea deal to avoid the death penalty, El Paso District Attorney James Montoya said at a press conference on Tuesday.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Defence Ministry (Mindef) is leaving it to the police to conduct an investigation into the death of Private Muhammad Muqriz Aseri from the Sri Miri Camp, Sarawak on Monday.
GEORGE TOWN: A Vietnamese woman was charged with the death of a teenager and injuring another while driving under the influence of alcohol at a Magistrate's court here.
JOHOR BARU: Revenge could have been the motive for the shooting murder of a man in Taman Setia Indah, Johor here two months ago, police investigation shows.
KOTA KINABALU: Two men had a brush with death after their vehicle was swept away by strong currents while attempting to drive across a low concrete road spanning a river in Kampung Sungai Simpangan, Kota Marudu, on Wednesday night (March 26).
At least 24 people have been killed in one of South Korea's worst wildfire outbreaks, with multiple raging blazes causing "unprecedented damage", the acting president said.
KUALA TERENGGANU: Despite 2025 being in its early months, the rising number of green sea turtle deaths in Terengganu has reached an alarming level with the state Fisheries Department recording 20 such cases since January.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Wednesday it may seek the death penalty for alleged Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, following his surprise expulsion from Mexico last month to face sweeping drug charges.
PUCHONG: The mother of Private Muhammad Muqriz Aseri, who died on Monday (March 24), described her son as deeply passionate about his military career.
'[Lau Kai-ping] committed the violent abuse just 1½ months after he was released from jail … he targeted a defenceless child to exert violence,' judge says
Emma Heming has been the 'Die Hard' star's primary caregiver since he stepped away from acting in March 2022.
KUALA TERENGGANU: The rising number of green sea turtle deaths in Terengganu has reached an alarming level, with the state Fisheries Department recording 20 cases since January.
SEOUL: The death toll from the wildfires sweeping through south-eastern South Korea has risen to at least 22, with authorities fearing the numbers could continue to climb.
UISEONG COUNTY, South Korea (Reuters) -At least 18 people have died as multiple wildfires rage across South Korea's southeastern region, with thousands of firefighters aided by the military deployed in a bid to contain one of the country's worst forest fires in decades.
A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder, who was the world's longest-serving death row inmate, has been awarded US$1.4mil (RM6.2mil) in compensation, an official said.
