Quake-hit Myanmar's junta chief to head to Bangkok summit

Min Aung Hlaing will join a BIMSTEC gathering -- the seven littoral nations of the Bay of Bengal -- where he will raise the response to Friday's 7.7-magnitude quake that has killed nearly 3,000 people. Many nations have sent aid and teams of rescue workers to Myanmar since the quake, but heavily damaged infrastructure and patchy communications -- as well as the country's rumbling civil war -- have hampered efforts. Myanmar has been engulfed in a brutal conflict since 2021, when Min Aung Hlaing's...