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Thai protesters lay posters condemning Myanmar General Min Aung Hlaing on top of a sheet covered in fake blood in Bangkok, Thailand. Protesters gathered to oppose the presence of the junta leader, who is attending a regional summit for the first time since the military coup that brought him to power.

Junta chief feted by leaders as bombs fall

As the junta leader shook hands in Bangkok, the UN said it had received 14 reports of attacks – including from aircraft, drones and artillery – despite a promised halt to the bombing after the earthquake.

  • Zach Hope

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Rescue workers are seen working at the collapsed construction building.

What it is like to wait for a miracle at Bangkok’s grey mountain of destruction

I’ve been looking at this mound of death for days. Those poor people trapped inside. What they endured, where they might be.

  • Zach Hope
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Car-sized boulders no match for lava as officials race to evacuate fishing village

Residents of a mostly abandoned village in Iceland refused to leave their homes even as molten rock broke through barriers set up to protect them.

  • Bronte Gossling
Family trapped in rubble

Footage shows family stuck under rubble, waiting for rescue

Some survivors filmed their ordeal as they waited to be rescued, trapped in tiny pockets of air between slabs of broken concrete.

Athitaya Yuenyao, 22, with her team of electricians.

Athitaya was on the second day of a new job. Her teammates made it out. She has not

Athitaya and her colleagues were about to begin work on the seventh floor of a Bangkok tower when their leader snapped this picture. Then an earthquake struck.

  • Zach Hope
A high-rise under construction in Bangkok collapses after an earthquake on March 28.

Kanittha can barely imagine returning to the office. It’s on the 29th floor

Friday’s earthquake emptied Bangkok into the streets and now darkens routines that involve living and working dozens of storeys above ground.

  • Damien Cave, Muktita Suhartono and Richard C. Paddock
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Russian Emergency Ministry employees leave one of two planes that landed in Myanmar following Friday’s earthquake.

China and Russia already have boots on the ground in Myanmar. The US is nowhere to be seen

The United States, the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has so far sent nothing to the earthquake disaster zone.

  • Hannah Beech and Edward Wong
Thai rescue workers remove a body recovered from the building that collapsed in Bangkok’s Chatuchak area.

A ‘signal’ is picked up in the rubble and the call goes out for quiet

It is three days almost to the moment since the under-construction office tower collapsed in Bangkok. But miracles can happen, and the staging area is buzzing.

  • Zach Hope and Veena Thoopkrajae
A building under construction in Bangkok collapses after an earthquake on Friday.

Town waiting for answers after 10 of its men go missing in Bangkok tower collapse

Aye and her brother are holding vigil beside a four-storey mound of rubble in Thailand, hoping to get news for worried families in their home town 1000 kilometres away.

  • Zach Hope and Veena Thoopkrajae
A damaged building in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyitaw.

Even as the earthquake death toll rose in Myanmar, the junta’s bombs kept falling

The Myanmar military kept dropping bombs on its own country even after Friday’s earthquake left at least 1600 people dead. The fate of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi is unknown.

  • Michael Ruffles and Lucy Macken

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