Businesses that utilize Highway 95 and have been impacted by its closure could be eligible for a disaster assistance loan.

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Defense Secretary and National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council Chairman, Gilberto Teodoro, Jr., conveyed his condolences to those affected by the 7.7-magnitude earthquake.

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"Myanmar just can't afford another disaster." People across the country are affected by "widespread violence", and the health system has "been decimated by conflict, overwhelmed by outbreaks of ...

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Bangkok has been declared a disaster area following the strong earthquake in neighbouring Myanmar, City Hall announced on Friday. Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt has been placed in charge of ...

Previous military regimes have been reluctant to accept international aid after natural disasters, such as following Cyclone Nargis in 2008. One woman in Mandalay, which has a population of 1.5 ...

Entire neighborhoods were devastated in a matter of seconds. Many factors conspired to make this earthquake a disaster, including a lack of quake-proofing measures in buildings across the region.

Bangkok authorities declared the Thai capital a "disaster area" on Friday, after a powerful earthquake in neighboring Myanmar created tremors which caused buildings to sway dramatically and one ...