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'Unimaginable Tragedy' if Burma Delays Aid
Sunday, May 11, 2008 8:50:00 PM
YANGON—Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of Burma's Irrawaddy delta on Sunday in search of food, water and medicine as aid groups said thousands more people will die if emergency su ...   Full Story
 

U.N. Chief Ban Warns Burma Inaction May Be Deadly
Friday, May 09, 2008 8:10:00 PM
UNITED NATIONS—U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Burma's military government Friday to allow aid and humanitarian workers into the cyclone-hit country "without hindrance," saying the surviv ...   Full Story
 

U.N. Says 1.5 Million People Affected by Burma Cyclone
Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:00:00 PM
UNITED NATIONS—The United Nations estimated 1.5 million people have been "severely affected" by the cyclone that swept through Burma, with the United States expressing outrage Thursday at delays in al ...   Full Story
 

Cyclone Unlikely To Spell Disaster for Burma Junta
Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:16:00 PM
BANGKOK—After 46 years of unbroken military rule, many people both inside and outside Burma think it will take an act of God to get rid of the generals.Inevitably, the former Burma's frustrated ...   Full Story
 

Campus Protests as China's Hu Courts Japan Public
Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:12:00 PM
TOKYO—Chinese Communist ruler Hu Jintao, on a symbolic visit to cement warming ties with Japan, urged the two Asian powers to look to the future as partners not rivals, but protests outside as he spok ...   Full Story
 

First U.N. Aid Flights Start Arriving in Burma
Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:30:00 AM
YANGON—The first United Nations relief flights started to arrive on Thursday for cyclone victims in military-ruled Burma (also known as Myanmar) as a U.S. diplomat said that more than 100,000 people m ...   Full Story
 

Burma Cyclone Toll Climbs to Nearly 22,500
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 8:04:00 AM
The latest casualty toll is 22,500 dead and 41,000 missing after Cyclone Nargis devastated Burma.   Full Story
 

Burma Cyclone Death Toll to Rise Past 15,000
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 8:00:00 AM
YANGON—At least 15,000 people were killed in the Burma cyclone and the toll was likely to rise as officials made contact with the worst-hit Irrawaddy delta areas, the military government's foreign ...   Full Story
 

States, Aid Agencies Offer to Help Storm-hit Burma
Monday, May 05, 2008 8:17:00 PM
Burma's military authorities gave the United Nations permission on Monday to send emergency aid to help hundreds of thousands of victims of a cyclone, a U.N. spokesman said.   Full Story
 

Burma Believes 13,000 Dead, Missing From Cyclone
Monday, May 05, 2008 8:05:00 PM
YANGON—Burma's military junta believes at least 10,000 people died in a cyclone that ripped through the Irrawaddy delta, triggering a massive international aid response for the pariah state in sou ...   Full Story
 

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