But I feel guilty because our people need us the most now. I feel helpless."Ko Naing is one of the millions of Myanmar's diaspora anxiously watching from afar as their country struggles following its biggest earthquake in a century.

A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar and Thailand on Friday, killing more than 150 people across both countries.

Friday's quake, one of the strongest to hit Myanmar in a century, has damaged infrastructure including bridges, highways, airports and railways - hampering rescue efforts as a civil war rages on in the Southeast Asian nation.

Survivors were pulled out of rubble in Myanmar and signs of life were detected in the ruins of a skyscraper in Bangkok on Monday as efforts intensified to find people trapped three days after a massive earthquake in Southeast Asia that killed at least 2,

A government spokesman told state-run MRTV that another 3,400 have been injured and more than 300 were missing.