YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Thousands of children in Myanmar will starve to death in two to three weeks unless food is rushed to them, an aid agency warned Sunday as an increasingly angry international community pleaded for approval to mount an all-out effort to help cyclone survivors.
ohn Holmes to Myanmar this weekend.
are now suffering from severe acute malnourishment, the most serious level of hunger," said Jasmine Whitbread, who heads the agency's operation in Britain. "When people reach this stage, they can die in a matter of days."

The unprepared Mekong Delta could face disaster if hit by a cyclone the size of Nargis, which ravaged Myanmar early this month an unlikely but possible scenario, officials warn at a meeting Saturday.
Officials and experts from the National Committee for Fighting Storms and Floods said the Mekong Delta, southern Vietnams rice basket, shares many similarities with the Irrawaddy Delta in Myanmar, which was devastated by Cyclone Nargis on May 2.
paration we could do nothing to cope with it.

By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Diplomats witnessed "huge" devastation in the Irrawaddy delta on Saturday and the toll of dead and missing from the

AP Cyclone survivors receive free clothing at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon. The government said that almost 78000 people had died; the Red Cross

YANGON // Myanmar took foreign diplomats and aid workers to the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy Delta yesterday, in the first such trip since the devastating storm hit the country two weeks ago.
One day after the regime said the official toll from the disaster had doubled to around 78,000 dead and 56,000 missing, they were taken on three flights into the zone, which has been mostly closed off to foreigners.
ountry yesterday, part of a group of 160 Asian medical workers that the junta is allowing to treat victims of the storm, officials said.

AP BANGKOK, Thailand: A French navy vessel packed with 1000 tons of humanitarian aid for cyclone survivors is prepared to wait for "days or weeks" off the

Paris - A French warship carrying 1000 tons of aid for cyclone victims in Myanmar is off the south coast of the devastated Irrawaddy delta,

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The official death toll nearly doubled to 78000 from Myanmar's killer cyclone as heavy rains on Friday lashed much of the area