A light earthquake rattled Beijing overnight, waking residents and sending students rushing from their dorms as videos of shaking living rooms went viral on Chinese social media on Wednesday.

The Chinese government dispatched the second batch of emergency humanitarian earthquake relief supplies to Myanmar from Beijing Capital International Airport on Thursday morning, according to the China International Development Cooperation Agency.

THE country's embassy in Bangkok called on Chinese companies operating abroad to comply with local laws after a Chinese construction firm came under scrutiny for a deadly building collapse in last week's earthquake.

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday, flattening skyscrapers and leaving more than 1,000 people dead from Myanmar to Thailand.

A 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar at 14:20 on Friday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). Strong tremors were felt across many places in Yunnan Province bordering Myanmar,

A specialised translation platform powered by China's AI model DeepSeek has been deployed to support Chinese rescue teams in earthquake-stricken areas of Myanmar, offering real-time language assistance to facilitate emergency operations,

International aid is flooding into Myanmar after a devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake killed approximately 2,000 people. Countries including China, India, the United States, Vietnam, South Korea, Thailand,

"After the earthquake, many Chinese rescue workers struggled to quickly and accurately understand Myanmar language distress messages from those affected in Myanmar," said Cao, who teaches at Tianjin Foreign Studies University. "Prompt translation improves rescue efficiency and helps victims escape more swiftly."