Fear and heartbreak in Singapore’s Little Myanmar after deadly quake


Shoppers at Peninsula Plaza shopping centre – dubbed Singapore’s Little Myanmar – on March 29. -- ST PHOTO: ELAINE LEE

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): It took three nerve-racking hours after a powerful earthquake struck on Friday (March 28) before Hein Htet Zaw could get through to his family in Myanmar.

The 27-year-old was in Peninsula Plaza shopping centre – dubbed Singapore’s Little Myanmar – when he heard that his home city Mandalay had been rocked by the 7.7-magnitude temblor.

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