Yangon

Fire destroys landmark hotel in Myanmar's largest city

One person is injured in a massive fire that destroyed one of Yangon's best-known hotels on Thursday, sending clouds of dark smoke billowing over the centre of Myanmar's largest city and triggering an hours-long battle to put out the flames.

90 dead in Myanmar landslide

At least 90 people have died in a huge landslide in a remote jade mining area of northern Myanmar, officials say as search teams continued to find bodies in one of the deadliest disasters to strike the country's shadowy jade industry.

October 19, 2017
October 19, 2017

Fire destroys landmark hotel in Myanmar's largest city

One person is injured in a massive fire that destroyed one of Yangon's best-known hotels on Thursday, sending clouds of dark smoke billowing over the centre of Myanmar's largest city and triggering an hours-long battle to put out the flames.

November 22, 2015
November 22, 2015

90 dead in Myanmar landslide

At least 90 people have died in a huge landslide in a remote jade mining area of northern Myanmar, officials say as search teams continued to find bodies in one of the deadliest disasters to strike the country's shadowy jade industry.