Kean Wong: The United Nations is now saying up to 2.5 million people may have been affected by Cyclone Nargis. That's up from a previous estimate of at least 1.5 million. They've proposed a high-level donors conference as Burma's regime continues to slow the arrival of foreign aid. The European Union's top aid official says the military government's restrictions on foreign aid workers and equipment are increasing the risk of starvation and disease. Burma was renamed Myanmar by the ruling military junta. U.N. humanitarian affairs chief John Holmes told reporters between 1.6 and 2.5 million people are "severely affected" by Cyclone Nargis and urgently need aid. The International Federation of Red Cross held a news conference in Bangkok on Thursday to update journalists on the deteriorating conditions in Burma. [Joe Lowry, Red Cross Official]: "Young volunteers are working almost around the clock at the headquarters in Yangon. They are loading and unloading trucks of international aid...
The United Nations said on Wednesday (May 14) up to 2.5 million people might have been affected by the Myanmar cyclone and proposed a high-level donors conference as the Myanmar junta again limited...
Bogalay/Yangon, May 15(ANI): According to the United Nations up to 2.5 million people might have been affected by the cyclone in Myanmar and urgently needed aid. The United Nations proposed a high...
More than 10,000 people are feared dead, and "several hundreds of thousands" have been left homeless by a tropical cyclone in southwestern Burma, a United Nations relief official has told CBC News....
Thousands of children who survived Burma's cyclone will starve to death in two to three weeks unless food is rushed to them, an international aid agency warned Sunday. Save the Children said...
CHEN: Thailand delivers hundreds of small tractors for cyclone victims in Burma to continue their livelihood as farmers and plant for the next harvest. But conditions are atrocious and many gardens...
More than 100,000 people may have perished in the deadly cyclone that ravaged Burma, a U.S diplomat said Wednesday, adding that the situation is becoming "increasingly horrendous." "The...
Yangon, May 26, 2008 : Philippine medical team left May 26 to join relief efforts in Myanmar, three days after the junta agreed to admit foreign aid workers to areas devastated by Cyclone Nargis....
As part of Operation NARGIS ASSIST, a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) C-17 Globemaster aircraft from No. 36 Squadron based at RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland, flew to Johannesburg, Republic of...
The United Nations now estimates up to 2.5 million people have been affected by the Burma cyclone. Despite the restrictions on the media in Burma, our Sky's reporter has managed to get into...
As part of Operation NARGIS ASSIST, a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) C-17A Globemaster aircraft from No. 36 Squadron based at RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland, flew to Johannesburg, Republic of...