Myanmar Relief Work 'Unacceptably Slow'

The Asian Highway should be jammed with a convoy of trucks carrying aid supplies from the Thai border to the devastated Burmese city of Rangoon, 400 kilometres away. Instead, most of the people on the road are refugees heading the other way – to ...

Sunday May 11 Eight days after cyclone Nargis struck Burma, life is slowly returning to normal in Rangoon, the nation's capital. The streets are littered with torn and twisted trees, but most of the fallen trunks have been pushed to one side, so ...

Burma's devastated Irrawaddy delta with stories of families wiped out, bodies floating in rice paddies and starving cyclone victims begging by the roadside. But none of that is making it into the tightly controlled state media. Instead, it is ...

M r Samak will carry UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon�s appeal to the Myanmar junta to lift all restrictions on international aid for victims of the May 3 Cyclone Nargis that devastated large parts of the Southeast Asian nation, Thai Foreign ...

Those orphaned or separated from family are the most vulnerable to dehydration, disease May 13, 2008 04:30 AM Olivia Ward Foreign Affairs Reporter Four years ago, all eyes were on the "tsunami children," huddling alone on roadways, separated from ...

he United States sent its first aid flight to Myanmar yesterday, but experts warned the relief effort was floundering and 1.5 million cyclone survivors were at grave risk from hunger and disease. The U.S. military transport plane, laden with ...

I can't talk now, I think I'm in danger," a reporter in Myanmar whispered into the phone...Phones are tapped and the few foreign journalists inside Myanmar are operating in secret, making it dangerous and difficult to tell the story of the cyclone ...

Some cyclone survivors, who came a hard way from their home disaster-hit regions to seek shelter with their relatives in Yangon in the aftermath, recounted Tuesday their bitter experiences on the recent cyclone storm Nargis that stroke their areas. ...

Vice-Admiral Soe Thein, of the military leadership, said Burma was grateful for the aid shipment from the United States which arrived on Monday...The US has said it hopes to send in two more transport aircraft carrying aid later on Tuesday. Two ...

Caused by a bacterium that attacks the lining of the small intestine...Victims become dangerously dehydrated within a few hours and can die within 24 hours without oral or intravenous rehydration. Incubation period is extremely short at between two ...