The US has sent a three-person team to Myanmar to help respond to the 7.7-magnitude earthquake, in a move criticised as “weak and irrelevant” by a former aid official.Much larger Russian and Chinese teams have already been helping search-and-rescue efforts in the country for days.

The effects of Trump administration’s deep cuts in foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department will likely be tested in any response to the first big natural disaster of his second term.

As U.S. experts head to Myanmar to assist in recovery from the Southeast Asia earthquake, teams from China are filling the void.

A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on Friday, with a building collapsing more than 600 miles away in Thailand. A high-rise building under construction in Thai capital Bangkok collapsed,

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State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said Monday the US has dispatched a disaster relief team to Myanmar days after a major earthquake left over 2,000 dead.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. would help Myanmar recover from a deadly earthquake while speaking in the Oval Office on March 28.

The announcement came after the ruling junta issued a rare plea for international aid President Donald Trump on Friday vowed the United States would assist Myanmar after it was hit by a huge earthquake,

Donald Trump says the US will help earthquake-hit Myanmar, but former aid officials say the system is 'in shambles' after swingeing cuts.