Critics say the country’s often-incompetent military government has delayed and restricted the arrival and distribution of crucial aid.

Myanmar's military rulers have kept journalists out since the devastating earthquake, so CBS News' partners at the BBC went undercover to reveal the scale of the disaster.

A former Miss Tourism Myanmar titleholder, who represented the country at the Miss Tourism World 2018 pageant, has been confirmed among the victims of the 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar on March 28.

Rescue workers at the U Hla Thein monastery said 270 monks were taking a religious exam when the quake hit, decimating the monastery. 70 were able to escape, but 50 have already been found dead and 150 are still unaccounted for.

Five friends defied the junta to care for people injured in the military coup. One returned from the battlefield to find his four friends among the dead in the March 28 earthquake.

BANGKOK: The body of Miss Tourism Myanmar 2018 Silimee was discovered beneath a 12-storey condominium in central Mandalay following last week's earthquake.

The smell of decaying bodies permeated the streets of Myanmar's second-largest city on Sunday as people worked frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of finding someone still alive, two days after a massive earthquake struck that killed more than 1,

A Hartlepool expat has told of the “horrifying carnage” caused by the devastating earthquake in Myanmar which has claimed more than 3,000 lives.