A Question For Robert Kaplanby tristeroYesterday, Robert Kaplan in the NY Times: discusses, in all seriousness, the possibility of invading Myanmar to get aid to the...

The numbers coming out of Asia are staggering: more than 43,000 dead from the cyclone in Burma and possibly up to 50,000 lives lost from the earthquake in China. Please...

Despite the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, the country's military junta has refused most offers of aid. Their resistance has led some to call for a...

As many as 3.2 million Burmese are estimated to be affected by the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis, according to geographic risk models developed by researchers from...

Brisbane TimesMyanmar's cyclone The regime is satisfiedEconomist - 2 hours agoSTARVING, homeless and vulnerable to infectious disease, the inhabitants of...

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's military government said on Thursday its cyclone relief effort was moving along swiftly even as foreign powers warned of starvation and...

World Vision is addressing the emotional and physical needs of children impacted by Cyclone Nargis by setting up safe play places where they can regain a sense of...

YANGON (Reuters) - The United Nations estimated those affected by the Myanmar cyclone at up to 2.5 million on Wednesday and called an urgent meeting of big donors and...

YANGON (Reuters) - Western powers kept up the pressure on Myanmar's generals on Thursday to allow a massive aid effort as relief workers struggled to help an estimated...

Amos Avgar, executive director of the International Development Program of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, just left Yangon, Myanmar. He discusses the...

Washington PostSaving BurmaTIME - 3 hours agoBefore Nargis struck Burma, also known as Myanmar, no one outside the paranoid clique of Burmese generals imagined that...

Heavy rains and another powerful storm are posing a serious threat to relief operations in Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta, where so little aid has arrived that the...

Ko Kyaw Win clung to a coconut tree to ride out the storm, but now a minor leg injury and a lack of medical supplies threatens his life. ...

BANGKOK, May 15 -- Burma's military rulers are appealing for international funding to get rice farmers in the cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy Delta back to their paddy fields,...

CBBC NewsroundPentagon Calls on Burma's Junta to Accept AidVoice of America - 2 hours agoBy Al Pessin The Pentagon is calling on Burma's leaders to "put...

YANGON (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Wednesday up to 2.5 million people might have been affected by the Myanmar cyclone and proposed a high-level donors...

Burmese Nobel Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi a few years ago admonished international relief groups to withhold aid to her country as long as the ruling Junta eschewed...

The Gazette (Montreal)UN raises Burma cyclone estimateBBC News - 1 hour agoThe UN has sharply increased its estimate of those severely affected by Burma's...

Radio AustraliaMonitors needed to protect Myanmar aid--rights groupInquirer.net - 11 hours agoThe New York-based watchdog said it had reports that some aid intended...

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's military government said on Thursday its cyclone relief effort was moving along swiftly even as foreign powers warned of starvation and...