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More than six weeks have passed since Cyclone Nargis swept through the Irrawaddy Delta in southern Myanmar, leaving a trail of flattened villages and broken lives and arousing international sympathy that turned to anguish as the military government...
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Several thousand people in Burma (also called Myanmar) were severely affected as they completely lost their homes and livelihood after Cyclone Nargis devastated the...
made popular Aug 11 2008
AP, Singapore
Myanmar is appealing for more foreign aid to help victims of Cyclone Nargis.Foreign Minister Nyan Win said more assistance would shorten his nation’s recovery...
made popular Jul 21 2008
AP, Yangon
Myanmar’s military regime has approved visas for more than 1,500 international aid workers to help victims of Cyclone Nargis, with half of them involved in relief...
made popular Jul 8 2008
AP, Yangon
Myanmar’s ruling junta has announced that 84,500 people perished in Cyclone Nargis in May, up from an earlier confirmed toll of 77,700.Deputy Foreign Minister...
made popular Jun 24 2008
AP, Bangkok
Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting John McCain, praised the U.N.’s effort to help victims of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar and panned...
made popular Jun 20 2008
AP, Yangon
Myanmar urgently needs diesel fuel to run the rice-tilling machines that are replacing water buffalo killed by Cyclone Nargis in the Irrawaddy delta, a senior U.N....
made popular Jun 13 2008
AP, Geneva
Myanmar should investigate reports that inmates were shot to death in a Yangon prison as Cyclone Nargis ravaged the country last month, a U.N. human rights expert said...
made popular Jun 6 2008
AP, Yangon
Donor nations said they were ready to provide Myanmar with more than $100 million to help it recover from Cyclone Nargis, but warned the ruling junta Sunday they will...
made popular May 25 2008
AP, United Nations
More than 45 countries and regional organizations have signed up to attend a donors conference in Myanmar on Sunday to mobilize funds for immediate humanitarian...
made popular May 24 2008
AP, Bangkok
With their history of xenophobia, no one expected Myanmar’s generals to welcome a flotilla of warships trying to help bring relief to millions affected by Cyclone...
made popular May 23 2008
AP, Yangon
A stack of pornographic films at Mg Zaw’s street stall hides some even more sought-after contraband: raw footage of the death and destruction caused by Cyclone...
made popular May 19 2008
AP, United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will fly to Myanmar this week and visit the areas hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis, a U.N. spokeswoman said Sunday.Myanmar’s military...
made popular May 18 2008
AP, United Nations
France criticized Myanmar’s military junta on Friday for refusing to allow a French Navy ship with 1,500 tons of aid for victims of Cyclone Nargis to deliver food...
made popular May 16 2008
What is happening in Burma is unconscionable! Cyclone Nargis made landfall on May 2, carving a path of destruction throughout the country, and yet here we are 13 days...
made popular May 15 2008
CHILD traffickers are targeting the youngest and most vulnerable survivors of Burma’s catastrophic cyclone and two suspects have already been arrested, the United...
made popular May 14 2008
AP, United Nations
Two natural disasters in tightly controlled Asian nations this month have produced two very different responses: Myanmar’s very slow reaction to Cyclone Nargis...
made popular May 14 2008
AP, United Nations
Two natural disasters in tightly controlled Asian nations this month have produced two very different responses: Myanmar’s very slow reaction to Cyclone Nargis...
made popular May 14 2008
AP, New York
A CNN reporter who left Myanmar Friday was chased by authorities as he reported on the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis but escaped primarily because of the incompetence of...
made popular May 10 2008
AP, Bangkok
It was Asia’s answer to Hurricane Katrina. Packing winds upwards of 120 mph, Cyclone Nargis became one of Asia’s deadliest storms by hitting land at one of...
made popular May 8 2008
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Myanmar’s ruling junta said Friday it will let foreign aid workers and commercial ships help survivors in the cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy Delta, but refused to...
made popular May 23 2008
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Overview of the Irrawaddy Delta, the region of Myanmar hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis:THE DEATH TOLL: Of the 22,000 dead so far, as many as 21,793 were from the...
made popular May 6 2008
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Irrawaddy Delta:
Ko Nyi Thaut, 53, who lost six of his children to the cyclone, explains the need for him to rush working in the rice field in order for his remaining three children and wife to survive in this July 6, 2008 photo in the Irrawaddy Delta in Myanmar.
