Earthquakes
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Thailand just gave Myanmar what it craved, and it wasn’t humanitarian aid
The junta was so happy with the news that it dominated the first five pages of the Myanmar newspaper, even as thousands lay dead or dying in rubble.
- Zach Hope
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Myanmar 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 despite a promised halt to the bombing after the earthquake.
- Zach Hope
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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
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
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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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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