A ferry sank in a river in Myanmar's cyclone-battered Irrawaddy delta, killing nearly 40 people, state-media reported Friday.
The cyclone that devastated Burma's heartland has also roiled a political landscape dominated by the military for more than four decades
Myanmar's ruling junta agreed Friday to "allow all aid workers regardless of nationalities" into the country to help cyclone survivors, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said.
Survival instincts of the Burmese who were affected by a recent cyclone were a major factor in the reduction of deaths in the country
Nine refugee camps stretch along western Thailand's border with Myanmar, but Mae La, with a population of 43,000, is by far the largest.
The United Nations warned Friday that it will be forced to ground helicopters that have been ferrying critical aid to Myanmar's cyclone survivors unless the international community urgently provides more funding.
Monsoon rains are hindering relief efforts in Myanmar as humanitarian agencies attempt to get aid into the cyclone-ravaged country, a UNICEF spokesman said on Monday.
Up to 35,000 pregnant cyclone survivors are in urgent need of proper care in Burma, a U.N. expert said Wednesday
United Nations helicopters fanned out across Burma's
Irrawaddy delta Monday, a U.N. official said, ferrying critical
supplies to villages struggling to survive since a devastating cyclone
struck more than five weeks ago
Tens of thousands of people killed in last month's cyclone may never be identified because their bodies have decomposed so badly and many ended up far from home, an aid organization said Sunday.
A ferry sank in a river in Myanmar's cyclone-battered Irrawaddy delta, killing nearly 40 people, state-media reported Friday.
The cyclone that devastated Burma's heartland has also roiled a political landscape dominated by the military for more than four decades
Myanmar's ruling junta agreed Friday to "allow all aid workers regardless of nationalities" into the country to help cyclone survivors, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said.
Survival instincts of the Burmese who were affected by a recent cyclone were a major factor in the reduction of deaths in the country
Nine refugee camps stretch along western Thailand's border with Myanmar, but Mae La, with a population of 43,000, is by far the largest.
The United Nations warned Friday that it will be forced to ground helicopters that have been ferrying critical aid to Myanmar's cyclone survivors unless the international community urgently provides more funding.
Monsoon rains are hindering relief efforts in Myanmar as humanitarian agencies attempt to get aid into the cyclone-ravaged country, a UNICEF spokesman said on Monday.
Up to 35,000 pregnant cyclone survivors are in urgent need of proper care in Burma, a U.N. expert said Wednesday
United Nations helicopters fanned out across Burma's
Irrawaddy delta Monday, a U.N. official said, ferrying critical
supplies to villages struggling to survive since a devastating cyclone
struck more than five weeks ago
Tens of thousands of people killed in last month's cyclone may never be identified because their bodies have decomposed so badly and many ended up far from home, an aid organization said Sunday.
A severe shortage of housing has left hundreds of thousands of cyclone survivors in Myanmar exposed to heavy rain as the monsoon season begins, aid agencies said Saturday.
Watch reports from the CNN team for its extensive coverage of Myanmar in the wake of Cyclone Nargis.
The White House criticized Burma's ruling junta on Wednesday for refusing to allow U.S. Navy ships to help their country deal with last month's devastating cyclone
U.S. Navy ships loaded with supplies for victims of Myanmar's cyclone will sail away from the country's coast on Thursday, after the ruling junta refused for three weeks to allow them to deliver aid.
More than 1 million people still don't have adequate food, water or shelter a month after a devastating cyclone swept through Burma
Myanmar's defense minister said Sunday his government broadcast warnings before a deadly cyclone hit the country last month -- and it has acted promptly since then in providing relief.
Logistical challenges have kept help from reaching much of Myanmar's cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy delta region, relief agencies reported Friday.
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Burma's military rulers have approved visas for dozens of international relief workers and were allowing more foreigners into areas devastated by a cyclone that left millions in need of aid
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Myanmar on Sunday to guide a conference with international agencies aimed at boosting donations for the cyclone-struck nation, now that its ruling military junta has agreed to accept aid.
Aid soon will be able to reach the more than 1 million cyclone victims still waiting for their first assistance if Burma's military regime allows the assistance
Six UNICEF staffers arrived in Myanmar on Monday after being granted access to enter areas hardest hit by the cyclone in a sign the nation's secretive military junta may be keeping its promise.
International aid is needed to help cyclone-ravaged Myanmar because the country is not equipped to handle the devastation, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Myanmar's prime minister Thursday.
Asian nations are beginning to focus on the reconstruction needs of Myanmar, devastated by Cyclone Nargis in early May, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday.
The number of conflicts in which child soldiers were involved dropped sharply from 27 in 2004 to 17 at the end of last year, according to a United Nations report
Myanmar's reclusive government has agreed to allow U.N. helicopters into some of the least accessible areas of the country's cyclone-devastated delta, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.
Humanitarian relief charities, confronted with back-to-back natural disasters, are scrambling to raise money from Americans and corporations.
As Myanmar began a three-day mourning period Tuesday, the World Bank reiterated that it cannot provide financial assistance or loans to the cyclone-ravaged country because of unpaid debts.
Farmer U Han Nyunt stands on some of the most fertile land in the world -- and fears that he will starve to death.
Myanmar has agreed to let its South Asian neighbors send medical personnel and an assessment team to the cyclone-ravaged country, more than two weeks after a storm that killed tens of thousands of people.
Two weeks after Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar, the country's reclusive junta leader Than Shwe visited a refugee camp outside Yangon, according to video broadcast on state television.
After concerns that Myanmar authorities improperly took some previous relief supplies, Myanmar is now allowing U.S. government aid workers to give aid directly to private aid groups.
The junta is trying to mask the tragic inefficiency of the aid efforts even as the population grows increasingly desperate
The founder of the Free Burma Coalition accused Myanmar neighbors China and India on Thursday of failing to do their share of "heavy lifting" in aiding victims of the Myanmar cyclone.
The international Red Cross says a lack of clean water will be the biggest killer in Burma in the coming days
The death toll from a killer cyclone in Myanmar could be "in the region of 100,000 or even more," says the chief of the United Nations Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief agency.
Myanmar's military junta has begun to let aid trickle into the country devastated by a cyclone that struck the region May 2, a U.S. Marine spokesman said Wednesday.
The new parents film a PSA to raise funds for the 8 million kids affected by the cyclone
Another powerful storm headed toward Burma's cyclone-devastated delta, where so little aid has reached that the U.N. warned on Wednesday of a "second wave of deaths" among an estimated 2 million survivors
Myanmar's government seems unaware of the scope of the death and destruction Cyclone Nargis wrought on the country more than a week ago, a U.S. military commander said Tuesday.
Bodies continued to pile up in Myanmar as the first U.S. aircraft carrying relief supplies touched down Monday in the cyclone-ravaged country.
In an effort to expedite aid to Myanmar, hard hit by Cyclone Nargis, the Treasury Department announced Monday that it is removing the limit on funds that Americans are allowed to send to individuals.
A U.S. military airplane with relief supplies was scheduled to land in Myanmar Monday on a mission that American officials say they hope will "build trust."
As aid groups struggled to distribute supplies to cyclone victims despite government obstacles, Myanmar TV was broadcasting messages urging people to vote "yes" in a referendum that critics say would strengthen the military rule.
Government officials, all but absent since cyclone Nargis killed tens of thousands across Burma, pressed ahead with a referendum Saturday in villages still reeling from the disaster
Hiding under a blanket in the back of a car at a police checkpoint. Hopping on boats instead of staying on a road. Constantly looking over your shoulder, knowing that at any moment you -- and those with you -- face the possibility of imprisonment, torture, even death.
After days of stonewalling, the Myanmar government is ready to accept aid from around the world for victims of Saturday's deadly cyclone, the country's U.N. ambassador said Friday.
The ruling junta will accept aid only with conditions. Should the U.S. strike to avert a humanitarian disaster?
The United States is considering air-dropping aid to victims of the cyclone in Myanmar even without permission from the military government, a U.S. official said Thursday.
Myanmar's military government began allowing aid agencies into the country Thursday to respond to the dire needs of those who survived the killer storm but is still being criticized for acting too slow.
The death toll from the cyclone that ravaged the Irrawaddy delta in Myanmar may exceed 100,000, the senior U.S. diplomat in the military-ruled country said Wednesday.
Viewpoint: The junta says things are returning to normal, pressing on with changes designed to cement their control
The United Nations and international relief organizations are scrambling to aid Myanmar, saying Friday's cyclone was the worst disaster the country had suffered in years. Myanmar officials expect the death toll to top 15,000.
Eyewitness reports on the devastation and suffering left in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar trickled out Wednesday by way of Web sites and blogs.
U.N. officials on Wednesday declared Burma's stricken Irrawaddy delta a "major disaster" with corpses floating through flooded waters and enormous logistical challenges hampering humanitarian aid efforts
The United Nations and the Red Cross began distributing relief supplies Tuesday to people affected by the devastating cyclone that killed at least 22,000 people in Myanmar on Friday.
The cyclone death toll soared above 22,000 on Tuesday and more than 41,000 others were missing as foreign countries mobilized to rush in aid after the country's deadliest storm on record, state radio reported
Homeless children watched Tuesday as solemn men unceremoniously dropped dead bodies into the river of this southern Myanmar township.
A humanitarian crisis looms in the aftermath of a tropical cyclone that has killed at least 22,000 people
Burma officials said on Tuesday the death toll could continue to climb higher than the 14,000 already feared dead from the Southeast Asian nation's devastating cyclone as the international community prepared to rush in aid
Residents in this sprawling river delta city hacked their way through downed trees and trudged through knee-deep swirling brown waters Monday as they tried to pick up the pieces of their lives after a deadly cyclone ravaged the southeast Asian country over the weekend.
Almost 4,000 people have died and another 3,000 remain missing in Burma as a result of this weekend's devastating cyclone, state media reported
China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are among 11 countries that practice religious oppression, a federal commission says.
Thai police said they planned to hold some survivors of a human trafficking disaster for questioning after witnesses gave police valuable information about the human smuggling network that trafficked them into Thailand from Myanmar.
In a cynical nod to reform, the military junta announces a plebiscite and parliamentary elections. But the not-so-fine print promises no real freedom
The bodies of 54 migrant workers from Myanmar were found Wednesday suffocated in a freezer on the back of a truck, police said.
Myanmar has witnessed its largest anti-government protests in 19 years after demonstrations that began in mid-August over sharp fuel price increases.
The Karen National Union secretary-general Mahn Sha was shot and killed Thursday in what the ethnic rebel group is calling an assassination by the Myanmar junta, a KNU official told CNN.
Pro-democracy opposition leaders from Myanmar have reacted with skepticism and concern about the ruling military junta's announced plan to hold a referendum on a new constitution in May and national elections in 2010.
The leading champion of democracy in Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, emerged from house arrest Wednesday to meet with political supporters, a diplomatic source told CNN.
A bomb placed in the back of a passenger bus killed the conductor Wednesday, Myanmar's state-run newspaper said.
The September crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators by the Myanmar military junta was bloodier than the government admitted to, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Friday.
Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is "ready to cooperate" with the government and is committed to pursuing a dialogue with the ruling junta, according to a statement the United Nations' special envoy to Myanmar read Thursday on her behalf.
Exchanging his sacred Bhuddist robes for a crucifix and his black-colored hair for bleached-blonde, 24-year-old Ashin Kovida found freedom in neighboring Thailand and escaped authorities within Myanmar's oppressive military regime intent on hunting down the pro-democracy leader.
More than 70 Buddhist monks marched in central Myanmar Wednesday, dissident sources near the Myanmar-Thailand border told CNN.
On the surface, Yangon appears almost normal since most of the military's activities now take place under cover of a nighttime curfew away from the cameras. But what is normal -- and what happens beyond normal?
Hundreds of villagers living on the outskirts of Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon, marched in support of the country's military junta Saturday after being threatened with steep fines if they did not, a political activist leader hiding in Yangon told CNN by phone.
A renowned Buddhist leader -- once opposed to the Vietnam War -- talks to TIME about the embattled monks of Burma
Hundreds of political prisoners locked in a Myanmar police compound are facing squalid living conditions following a massive government crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations staged in late September, a political activist leader hiding in Yangon told CNN by phone.
U.S. first lady Laura Bush -- in a rare foray into foreign policy -- called on Myanmar's military junta to "step aside," give up the "terror campaigns" against its people and allow for a democratic Myanmar in a commentary published in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal.
About 100 demonstrators rallied outside Myanmar's embassy in Washington on Saturday, joining an international day of action in cities around the world to "free Burma."
U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari will brief the U.N. Security Council in an open session Friday on his recent visit to Myanmar, despite objections from the Chinese ambassador who wanted the briefing held behind closed doors.
The United Nations Human Rights Council is pushing for a fact-finding mission to Myanmar as video smuggled out of the secretive country shows unarmed protesters being beaten by the military regime's security forces.
An international aid worker who witnessed the bloody crackdown on weekend pro-democracy demonstrations in Myanmar told CNN she saw bodies lying in the street in front of a pagoda dedicated to world peace, possibly as a warning from the government's security forces.
United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari left Myanmar Tuesday after talks with the country's junta chief and pro-democracy leader aimed at ending a brutal crackdown on widespread protests.
A U.N. envoy remained tightlipped Wednesday about his meetings with Myanmar's junta chief and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, a highly watched mission that followed the regime's deadly crackdown on democracy protesters.
Myanmar's foreign minister U Nyan Win on Monday blamed intense pro-democracy demonstrations in his country on "political opportunists" and declared that "normalcy has now returned to Myanmar."
Last week's crackdown on Burmese protesters made headlines. But the nation's military junta remains a mystery
For most of the morning the other day, they locked down one of the two massive runways at busy Changi International Airport here. This was unusual.
Asia's biggest democracy won't speak out against the violence in neighboring Burma, drawing critical fire of its own
Close the borders, shut down the media, expel dissidents and restrict visitors: The world's most oppressive regimes have developed watertight ways of shielding themselves from the eyes of the world.
In a closed country, satellite images are helping prove the junta's human-rights abuses
The Internet connection in Myanmar was cut Friday, limiting the free flow of information the nation's citizens were sharing with the world depicting the violent crackdown on monks and other peaceful demonstrators.
Armed with a laptop, a blogger named Ko Htike has thrust himself into the middle of the violent crackdown against monks and other peaceful demonstrators in his homeland of Myanmar.
Soldiers reportedly fired into crowds and beat Buddhist monks Thursday, and state media said nine people were killed as Myanmar's military rulers continued its crackdown on anti-government demonstrations.
The United States imposed new sanctions on Myanmar's ruling junta Thursday as its Southeast Asian neighbors urged a peaceful resolution to growing political unrest in the country.
The following are reactions to the demonstrations being staged across the secretive Asian nation of Myanmar by thousands of Buddhist monks and citizens in protest of the military regime, which seized power in 1962.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is to send a special envoy to Myanmar amid reports of several deaths in clashes between security forces and thousands of protesters led by Buddhist monks.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is "urgently dispatching" a special envoy to Myanmar, a statement from his office said Wednesday, following reports of violent clashes in that country between security forces and protesters.
The scene on the streets of Burma's capital was chaotic as security forces cracked down on protesting monks
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