Myanmar's deadly quake provides political opening for Asean

Myanmar's deadly quake provides political opening for Asean

AS if the economic deprivation visited on Myanmar following the 2021 military coup and the unending state of civil war in the country were not misery enough on its people, a massive earthquake on March 28 near the ancient city of Mandalay has laid waste to much of the city and its surrounding areas. At last count, some 3,000 have died and three million people are displaced. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd

(People) - Amid the rubble of the earthquake, bodies unburied, people living in hunger and disease, Myanmar is engulfed in unprecedented trauma.