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Burma says it will not allow U.S. naval ships to deliver emergency aid to victims of Cyclone Nargis, which devastated the country's Irrawaddy delta earlier this month.

Burma begins official mourning for victims of Cyclone Nargis, as the regime starts to accept limited help.

A cyclone wallops Myanmar or Burma or whatever the hell else they're calling themselves these days and close on its heels, an earthquake rattles the fillings from a quintillion Chinese teeth. Both are totalitarian regimes, neither has a long history of do

U.S. Official: Americans Might Be Allowed Into Burma, Burma's ruling junta is prepared to open up to more international aid from the U.S. and other countries.

Myanmar, a country whose troubles has been have been exacerbated by its ruling junta and their reluctance to allow the rest of the world to assist its citizens after Cyclone Nargis slammed it...

(Reuters) - After 46 years of unbroken military rule, many people both inside and outside Myanmar think it will take an act of God to get rid of the junta. Here are some reasons why analysts say the generals are resisting pressure to open up to...

As millions face starvation and a cholera threat, the Prime Minister says he will rule nothing out including the prospect of Britain carrying out unauthorised emergency aid drops into Burma as a last resort

Missing from the media’s lecturing is mention of the disastrous U.S. record in Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans

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.

Pu Cin Sian Thang, a prominent ethnic political leader of Burma, was rushed to Rangoon General Hospital on Saturday morning, when a military truck hit his taxi while he was traveling in town, a political ally said. "He was in a taxi in downtown Rangoon