Myanmar people and aid workers risk jail to sneak disaster photos to West. WASHINGTON, May 14, 2008 — -- A half-clothed baby's body entangled in brush. Rows of lifeless children lying on the ...
The government fears the death toll could reach 10,000. May 5, 2008 — -- With the death toll approaching 10,000 from the devastating cyclone that slammed Myanmar on Saturday, U.N. agencies and ...
YANGON, Myanmar — More aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar — but so is the heavy rain. A week after Cyclone Nargis flattened low-lying villages and killed whole families at a time, the ...
YANGON, Myanmar, May 16 (UNHCR) - As Cyclone Mahasen approaches the coasts of Myanmar and Bangladesh, more than 35,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar's Rakhine state have been moved to safer ...
Each year, between June and October, communities across Myanmar’s Rakhine State brace themselves for the near-daily deluges that sweep across the region during the monsoon season. This year, the ...
The death toll from Cyclone Mocha which barrelled through the Bay of Bengal rose on Monday as contact was slowly restored to western Myanmar, with 29 people reported dead. Cyclone Mocha made landfall ...
Donations to help victims of the Myanmar cyclone continued to mount on Wednesday, even as charities faced enormous hurdles in bringing aid to the country. More than $8-million has been pledged so far ...
A growing number of charities have sent supplies to Southeast Asia to help victims of the recent cyclone in Myanmar, but many aid workers continued to express concern that red tape and foot-dragging ...
SHAW CHAUNG, Myanmar (Reuters) - For most of the survivors of Cyclone Nargis, the annual monsoon rains that have lashed Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta for the last six months only compounded the misery.
BANGKOK, Thailand – More than 1 million people still don't have adequate food, water or shelter a month after a devastating cyclone swept through Burma, also known as Myanmar, and it's not clear what ...
Myanmar, the country once known as Burma, has been struck by a cyclone with winds exceeding 120 miles an hour. The death toll may rise above 10,000. Pam Sitko, emergency communications officer for ...