© AP YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Hidden behind a stack of pornographic video discs, Yangon street vendor Mg Zaw has even more sought-after contraband: footage of the destruction caused by Cyclone Nargis, which cut a deadly path through Myanmar's heartland two weeks ago.
The storm ripped into Myanmar's largest city of Yangon itself, but did most of
en evidence of the cyclone was suppressed, it would emerge on the black-market video circuit.

By AP YANGON - Despite signs everywhere to the contrary, Myanmar's military government tried yesterday to show the world that all was under control, leading diplomats on their first tour through the Irrawaddy Delta, where more than 130,000 people were killed or are still missing after the May 2-3 cyclone.
The junta flew 60 diplomats and United Nations officials in helicopters to three places in the delta where camps, aid and survivors were put on display.
s assault ship, and its battle group have been waiting to join in the relief effort as well.

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.

By Aung Hla Tun YANGON, May 17 (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta took diplomats on a tour of the storm-ravaged Irrawaddy delta on Saturday as the toll of dead and

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A French navy ship approached Myanmar's cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy delta Saturday, but was still awaiting permission from the

By Diane Smith Nearly two weeks after the devastating Cyclone Nargis hit the Irrawaddy Delta and the country’s main city, Yangon, Myanmar almost doubled the

MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - The official death toll following Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis, which hit the Southeast Asian country two weeks ago, has risen to 77,738, and 56,000 are missing, national television reported on Friday.
The cyclone, which has been the worst natural disaster to hit the region since the 2004 tsunami, battered Myanmar on May 2, devastating large parts of the country including the main city Yangon, and forcing thousands of people to abandon their homes.
have complained that distribution is being delayed by the military junta, who are reluctant to permit foreigners into the worst-hit areas.

(NECN: Myanmar) - The United Nations said on Friday that severe restrictions by Myanmar's military junta have left aid agencies largely in the dark about

AP YANGON, Myanmar: The official death toll from Myanmar's killer cyclone nearly doubled to 78000 as aid workers shackled by the country's uncooperative

by Ignacio Ramonet and Fidel Castro By Arthur Blaustein As the official death toll climbs in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, the Burmese government remains