Some 70,000 people in Myanmar remained homeless Tuesday in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Giri, the United Nations said, citing local authorities.
At least 27 people were killed, 15 are missing and 2,500 homes were damaged in Myanmar as a result of Tropical Cyclone Giri, which slammed into the country Friday with wind speeds of up to 155 mph, state television reported Monday.
An overpowering tropical cyclone that intensified rapidly has made landfall in western Myanmar, CNN meteorologists said Friday.
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Lawyers for Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi appealed her 18-month house arrest to the high court Friday, while the nation's ruling junta granted amnesty to thousands of other prisoners.
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Debt problems and lack of credit. A housing crisis and a funding shortfall. These are not the problems of the Western world in the face of the global economic downturn, but some of the lingering challenges in Myanmar one year after devastating Cyclone Nargis hit the country, aid groups said.
The World Food Program says Myanmar still needs aid one year after a devastating cyclone tore through the country.
Myanmar is facing a food shortage largely due to last year's deadly Cyclone Nargis, which destroyed nearly all the rice crops in the fertile Ayeyarwaddy delta, the United Nations said Wednesday.
An Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit will take place late February in Thailand, its government announced Tuesday, a day after Abhisit Vejjajiva was picked as Thai prime minister and ASEAN's charter came into force.
Jamie Metzl of the Asia Society talks with CNN about what ASEAN's charter means.
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Watch reports from the CNN team for its extensive coverage of Myanmar in the wake of Cyclone Nargis.
CNN's Dan Rivers investigates the dark side of survival.
Protesters commemorate the bloody repression of a student uprising in Myanmar 20 years ago. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
Myanmar's military rulers have extended the house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi for another year, a source who spoke to a member of her political party told CNN on Monday.
Ever since he was an architecture student in London during the 1990s, Cameron Sinclair has been committed to providing solutions to some of the world's most impoverished and disaster-hit communities.
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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.
A CNN reporter in Myanmar reports that despite the arrival of aid, its distribution is still a problem.
The three superstars are campaigning for more humanitarian support in Myanmar
CBC's Stephanie Jenzer visits with a man who is reaching out to feed those affected by Cyclone Nargis.
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
A well-known Burmese satirist is in jail after providing aid to cyclone survivors
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.
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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
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.
Before leaving for Myanmar, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said 25 percent of aid is getting to victims.
Myanmar has begun three days of mourning for the thousands killed by cyclone Nargis.
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.
There's a surreal sense of order in Burma's new capital, which is far removed from the rest of the devastated country
As the government's own aid efforts fall short, the Buddhist monks are joining other private citizens in taking up the slack
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.
Burma's junta warned Thursday that legal action would be taken against people who trade or hoard international aid in the wake of this month's devastating cyclone
Children may account for one-third of dead in Myanmar. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
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.
Clean-up efforts underway in Myanmar following a deadly cyclone that ripped through the region.
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.
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.
At the heart of Burma's storm devastation, a gargantuan relief effort should be mounting. It isn't
With tens of thousands dead and more than a million people at risk, the cyclone's victims still have the junta on their minds
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
Aerial view of the homes and villages destroyed in Myanmar by Cyclone Nargis.
In Burma, small villages and communities remain unattended by the ruling junta. And out of the corpse-crowded waters, fevers infect the children
Burmese have no time to grieve as they try to salvage their lives after cyclone Nargis
In the city of Bogalay, residents fend for themselves while the government dithers
Amateur video shot in Labutta, Myanmar, as Cyclone Nargis comes ashore.
Much of the world wants to help Myanmar after a devastating cyclone. CNN's Richard Roth reports.
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.
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.
CNN's Dan Rivers travels to Bogalay, Myanmar for a first-hand account of the devastation in the wake of Cyclone Nargis.
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 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
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.
CNN's Owen Thomas speaks with Aung Zaw of Irrawaddy Magazine a dissident magazine, about the storm in Myanmar.
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
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