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THEY HAD travelled for hours, some for days. It didn’t matter. They had made it to Taung Pyone. Every August hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over Myanmar descend on this village 20km north ...
When a powerful earthquake struck Myanmar in March 2025, it left not only homes but also lives fractured. In villages across the affected region, families scrambled to safety as the ground trembled ...