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• Junta Offers Showcase Camps, But Refugees Lack Aid Thursday, 22 May 2008 | 11:50 PM ET

  

  The 68 blue tents are lined up in a row, with a brand-new water purifier and boxes of relief supplies, stacked neatly but as yet undelivered and not even opened.  But for the majority of Cyclone Nargis survivors, aid is something they've had no access to.

• UN Chief Flies to Myanmar to Press Aid Case Wednesday, 21 May 2008 | 11:46 PM ET

  

  U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon flew to Myanmar on Thursday to press the ruling generals to allow a full-blown international aid effort for 2.4 million people left destitute by Cyclone Nargis.

• Myanmar Mourns Cyclone Dead, Aid Pressure Grows Monday, 19 May 2008 | 11:48 PM ET

  

  Army-ruled Myanmar started three days of mourning on Tuesday for the 134,000 dead and missing from Cyclone Nargis as diplomats pressed the reclusive generals to speed up aid to 2.4 million survivors.

• Hopes for Myanmar Cyclone Aid Rise as ASEAN Meets Monday, 19 May 2008 | 12:08 AM ET

  

  Hopes turned to a meeting of Southeast Asian foreign ministers on Monday for a breakthrough in speeding up aid flows to the millions of desperate cyclone survivors in Myanmar.

• New Storm Deepens Misery in Cyclone-Hit Myanmar Friday, 16 May 2008 | 12:29 AM ET

  

  Torrential tropical downpours lashed Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on Friday, deepening the misery of an estimated 2.5 million destitute survivors of Cyclone Nargis and further hampering the military government's aid efforts.

• Myanmar's Cyclone Survivors Beg for Help Wednesday, 14 May 2008 | 12:59 AM ET

  

  Desperation among Myanmar's 1.5 million cyclone survivors mounted on Wednesday as the international aid flow remained a trickle and police barred foreign aid workers from worst-hit areas.

• Two More US Aid Flights Set to Fly to Myanmar Monday, 12 May 2008 | 11:18 PM ET

  

  Two more American aid flights were due to leave for cyclone-hit Myanmar on Tuesday where the reclusive military government is keeping most foreign aid workers away from the devastated Irrawaddy delta.

• US to Begin Relief Airlift, Military Accused of Neglect Sunday, 11 May 2008 | 10:38 PM ET

  

  The U.S. was launching its first relief airlift Monday after prolonged negotiations with Myanmar's military rulers, accused of restricting international efforts to help up to 1.5 million cyclone survivors at risk of disease and starvation.

• Cyclone-Hit Myanmar Could Face Rice Shortages Wednesday, 7 May 2008 | 10:37 PM ET

  

  The first United Nations relief flights started to arrive on Thursday for cyclone victims in military-ruled Myanmar as a U.S. diplomat said that more than 100,000 people may have been killed.

• Myanmar Cyclone Toll Climbs to Nearly 22,500 Tuesday, 6 May 2008 | 9:02 PM ET

  

  Myanmar's military government raised its death toll from Cyclone Nargis to nearly 22,500 with another 41,000 missing, almost all from a massive storm surge that swept into the Irrawaddy delta.

• Cyclone Kills 10,000 in One Myanmar Town, Aid Promised Monday, 5 May 2008 | 10:23 PM ET

  

  Countries worldwide promised help to Myanmar after a cyclone killed 10,000 people in just one town, suggesting the overall death toll in the impoverished military-run Southeast Asian nation will be much higher.

• Five Asian Nations Are Weighing a Rice Cartel Thursday, 1 May 2008 | 9:24 AM ET

  The governments of Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar are weighing the creating of a rice exporting cartel.

• ASEAN Fails to Bite on Myanmar Reforms Friday, 23 Nov 2007 | 3:45 AM ET

  

  If the Association of Southeast Asian Nations , better known as ASEAN, was a garden party, then Myanmar was the dark cloud that threatened to break. Some could say that it did in fact rain on ASEAN's parade.

• UN Envoy Reports on Myanmar as China Opposes Action Thursday, 4 Oct 2007 | 8:35 PM ET

  U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari met U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday after a four-day visit to Myanmar in which he secured the junta's agreement to meet pro-democracy figure Aung San Suu Kyi.

• Myanmar Junta Carries Out More Arrests Wednesday, 3 Oct 2007 | 10:45 PM ET

  

  Troops in Myanmar hauled away truckloads of people after the departure of a U.N. envoy trying to end a ruthless crackdown on pro-democracy rallies that has sparked international outrage.

• Myanmar Junta Arrests More, U.N. Envoy in Singapore Wednesday, 3 Oct 2007 | 12:17 AM ET

  

  Myanmar's junta arrested more people under the cover of darkness on Wednesday despite a crescendo of international outrage during a keenly watched U.N. mission to bring an end to a bloody crackdown on protests.

• U.N. Peace Envoy Waits to See Myanmar Junta Chief Sunday, 30 Sep 2007 | 11:34 PM ET

  U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari was waiting to see Myanmar junta chief Than Shwe on Monday in pursuit of his mission to end a bloody crackdown against 45 years of military rule, diplomats said.

• Japan Envoy Goes to Myanmar over Newsman's Death Sunday, 30 Sep 2007 | 7:25 PM ET

  A Japanese envoy flew to Myanmar on Sunday to urge the military government to thoroughly investigate the killing of a Japanese journalist during an anti-government rally and not to use force to end mass protests.

• Myanmar Crackdown Draws Outrage, Protests Friday, 28 Sep 2007 | 1:44 AM ET

  

  Fueled by "revulsion" at Myanmar's violent crackdown on popular protests against military rule, Southeast Asia rounded on the generals on Friday and critics planned demonstrations at embassies across the region.

• Myanmar Monasteries Raided, World Prays for Calm Wednesday, 26 Sep 2007 | 11:47 PM ET

  Myanmar's generals launched pre-dawn raids on activist monasteries on Thursday, ignoring increasingly desperate international calls for restraint in their crackdown on the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years.