Through the Lens: Violent earthquake jolts Myanmar

A man donates money to an injured novice monk at Mandalay General Hospital on April 1. (Photo by Reuters)

People take shelter in a camp of makeshift tents in Mandalay on April 1. (Photo by Reuters)

People line up for food on a road near Mandalay Palace on April 2. (Photo by AP)

Russian rescuers arrive in Mandalay on March 30. (Photo by Russian Emercom/TASS/Kyodo)

A woman in Mandalay holds a poster of her young brother on April 1 as she hopes for his rescue in the aftermath of the quake. (Photo by Kyodo)

People take shelter in a makeshift camp in front of a damaged building in Mandalay on April 1. (Photo by Reuters)

Members of a Chinese rescue team search and rescue team transfer a pregnant survivor from a collapsed building in Mandalay on March 31. (Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua/AP)

A Chinese rescue team searches for survivors in a tilted Mandalay apartment building on March 31. (Photo by Getty Images)

A member of a Hong Kong rescue service searches through rubble with a sniffer dog in Mandalay on March 31. (Photo by Chen Yongnuo/China News Service/VCG/Getty Images)

Members of a Chinese rescue team observe a minute’s silence at a quake site in Mandalay on April 1. (Photo by VCG/Getty Images)

Rescuers look at the rubble of the collapsed State Audit Office building in Bangkok on March 31. The high-rise had been under construction before it was dramatically destroyed in the quake. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)

A rescuer stands at the site of the wrecked State Audit Office building in the Thai capital on March 31. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)

A rescuer works at the destroyed State Audit Office building on March 31. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)

Foreign rescuers help authorities at the collapsed State Audit Office building in Bangkok on March 31. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)

K-9 dog of the Thailand Rescue Dog Association gets a cold bath to keep its temperature down during a search operation, following a strong earthquake in Bangkok on March 31. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)

People walk underneath cherry blossoms in Tokyo on March 30. (Photo by Mizuho Miyazaki)

A bee sucks nectar from cherry blossoms in the Japanese capital on March 26. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)

People enjoy blossoms in full bloom in Osaka on April 2. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)

Gwen Akiko Robinson in Enoshima, Japan, in 2023. The journalist, who was Nikkei Asia's Bangkok-based editor-at-large, died on March 29 at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer. (Photo by Reiko Cirilli)  

Robinson, right, is photographed with Aung San Suu Kyi, then Myanmar state counsellor, during an interview in Naypyitaw in September 2017. (Photo by Shinya Sawai)

Robinson smokes a cigarette in Naypyitaw before a 2015 interview with Myanmar's president at the time, Thein Sein. (Photo by Yumi Kotani)

Robinson, left, speaks with Bangladesh's then-prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka in 2018. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)

Robinson's portrait is displayed during her funeral at Wat Hua Lamhpong in Bangkok. The event was held from April 1 to 3. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)

A donation box is pictured on April 1 at the funeral. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)

Flowers are displayed on April 3 for the funeral at Wat Hua Lamphong. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)

Mourners attend Buddhist chanting at Wat Hua Lamphong on April 1. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)

Monks chant on April 1 as part of Robinson’s funeral. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)

Mouners attending the funeral on April 3. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)

Robinson's coffin is moved to a crematorium on April 3. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)