Myanmar Cyclone Casualties Nearly 78,000

Download (MP3) Corben report - Listen (MP3) A United Nations agency says that as many as one million children may be at risk of disease following Cyclone Nargis. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, the concerns come as efforts continue to persuade ...

Burma said on Friday that more than 133 000 people were dead or missing in the cyclone disaster, nearly doubling the toll from the worst disaster in the country's history, which hit two weeks ago. Even as the regime again rejected calls for ...

4 Yangon: Torrential tropical downpours lashed Myanmar's cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta on Friday as thousands of destitute victims took to roadsides to beg for help to supplement the meager trickle of aid flowing in....

Myanmar state television says the death toll in this month's cyclone has reached almost 78,000, thousands higher than the number previously reported...The previous government toll was pegged at 43,318 people dead and nearly 28,000 missing in the May ...

Myanmar cyclone survivors wait in line for rice donations on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, May 16, 2008. The cyclone's official death toll has nearly doubled to almost 78,000 and another 56,000 people remain missing two weeks after the ...

The United Nations said Friday that severe restrictions by Myanmar's military junta have left aid agencies largely in the dark about the extent of survivors' suffering two weeks after a killer cyclone left up to 2.5 million people destitute. John ...

The European Union aid chief said Friday that Myanmar's junta still would not budge on accepting foreign relief workers, two weeks after the cyclone tragedy that has left more than 71,000 dead or missing. Heavy rains again pounded the devastated ...

The cyclone's official death toll has nearly doubled to almost 78,000 and another 56,000 people remain missing two weeks after the devastating storm, state television reported Friday. The United Nations, meanwhile, said that severe restrictions by ...

Shari Villarosa, the charge d'Affaires of the US Embassy in Burma, says a group of diplomats will be taken to the delta region later today. Embassy officials in Burma say that all ambassadors are invited to join the trip, with helicopters due to ...

ET A U.S. envoy says Burma's secretive military government has agreed to take foreign diplomats on a tour of the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy Delta, but the United Nations complains that aid agencies remain largely in the dark about the extent of the ...