In Taiwan's Little Myanmar, fear for quake affected relatives

Ben Blanchard - Reuters - 29/03
Win Win has been glued to social media for the past day, trying to work out whether her family in Myanmar's Mandalay survived Friday's powerful earthquake, distracting herself at the Taiwan restaurant where she works by serving samosas and other snacks.
NEW TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 29 (Reuters) - Win Win has been glued to social media for the past day, trying to work out whether her family in Myanmar's Mandalay survived Friday's powerful earthquake, distracting herself at the Taiwan restaurant where she works by serving samosas and other snacks.
"We spoke last night but then nothing today. I can't get through. I'm so scared for them," Win Win, one of Taiwan's estimated 50,000 Sino-Burmese, told Reuters on Saturday at the eatery in Little Myanmar in New Taipei, neighbouring the capital, Taipei.

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Myanmar's second-largest city, Mandalay, which lies close to the epicentre of the 7.7 magnitude quake, has a large ethnic Chinese population, many of whom have ties to Taiwan, whose government has offered to send rescue teams.
Taiwan's foreign ministry says it has yet to receive a response to that offer.
Yee Yu Nai, sitting at a snack store in Little Myanmar, scrolled through her phone looking for the l...
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