Myanmar Cyclone Casualties Nearly 78,000

France has sent an uninvited ship loaded with aid to the international waters off Myanmar, causing the U.N. ambassador from the Southeast Asian nation on Friday to accuse the French of dispatching a "warship." The desire of outside countries to ...

Google THE French envoy to the United Nations has warned that Burma risked committing "crimes against humanity" in its failure to allow foreign aid in to help victims of the devastating cyclone. Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert said he appealed during ...

Myanmar state television reported on Friday night that the country's official death toll from Cyclone Nargis has risen sharply...Two weeks after the powerful cyclone swept through the country, more than 55,900 people remain missing, including 58 ...

Torrential rain lashed survivors of Cyclone Nargis on Friday as Myanmar's junta raised its toll sharply to more than 133,000 people dead or missing, putting the disaster on a par with a 1991 cyclone that killed 143,000 in neighboring Bangladesh. In ...

Isolated from the outside world by a military regime ruthlessly determined to control the flow of international aid, and battered again by torrential downpours, the stranded victims of Myanmar's cyclone disaster are succumbing to hunger, disease and ...

Long before this tragedy, Myanmar was known as a notoriously reclusive country...Andrew Kirkwood works for Save the Children and is one of only a handful of Canadians on the ground in Myanmar. "We were told very clearly that at this stage they do ...

Burma this week finally allowed a disaster assessment team from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to travel to the Irrawaddy Delta region, where more than 100,000 people are dead or missing and more than 2 million lost their homes. ...

State estimates place the death toll at 32,000, but the UN says the actual number could stand as high as 100,000. Unofficial reports coming out of the country through dissident channels describe bodies floating in rivers that people depend on for ...

People wait for help in the worst-hit Irrawaddy Delta He warned that the Burmese government's refusal to allow aid to be delivered to those who needed it "could lead to a true crime against humanity". "Hundreds of thousands of lives are in jeopardy ...

Two weeks after Cyclone Nargis tore a swath through Burma, the official death toll in the tragedy leapt dramatically to 77,738 last night, up from 43,328 a day earlier, with 55,917 still missing. The grim acknowledgment of the cyclone's destructive ...