OUTSIDERS HAD dared wonder if the enormous earthquake which struck Myanmar on March 28th might bring a pause in its awful civil war. The answer did not take long to come. On March 29th the rebel alliance known as the National Unity Government announced a temporary ceasefire so that rescuers could do their job. The military junta, which has held power since a coup in 2021, made no similar pledge. Instead, it has intensified air strikes since the disaster. Its bombs have fallen close to people scrabbling through the rubble to look for survivors.

Where will aid come from, and how will the junta use it?

Two disasters in 1995 captured the spirit of the country’s lost decades

After decades of inertia, workers are now on the move. Why?

It is unlikely to turn the tide of the war

India’s prime minister is due to visit Nagpur, the site of the violence

Tamil Nadu’s leader explains in an interview with The Economist