Civil service families on April 7 live in crude shacks they built themselves on a football field near their ruined homes in Nay Pyi Taw's Zabuthiri Township. (Frontier)

Down and out: Junta offers scant help to homeless civil servants

Myanmar’s earthquake has left the regime’s already shaky administration reeling, with thousands of its staff in the capital now living in temporary shelters and complaining of limited assistance from their masters.

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