AP GENEVA: The United Nations will need to continue its emergency operations for the victims of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar for the foreseeable future,

By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Flags across Myanmar flew at half-mast on Tuesday for the victims of Cyclone Nargis as the U.N.'s top aid envoy pressed the military government to allow foreign helicopters to fly in supplies to survivors.
The army declared three days of mourning after a visit by 75-year-old junta supremo Than Shwe to the stricken Irrawaddy Delta on Monday, his first since the cyclone struck two weeks ago, leaving nearly 134,000 dead or missing.
The bespectacled Senior General, who has run the country since 2005 from a bunker in a new capital 250 miles (390 km) north of Yangon, was shown on state-run TV touring hard-hit towns.

YANGON, Myanmar (CNN) - Farmer U Han Nyunt stands on some of the most fertile land in the world -- and fears that he will starve to death.
enough rice in its reserves to offset the loss. The challenge is to deliver it to hard-to-reach areas.
c the fields could recover in time for a healthy, albeit slightly smaller, rice yield.

AP YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar began three days of mourning Tuesday for some 78000 cyclone victims after its ruling junta appeared to relent to foreign

Survivors of Cyclone Nargis wait in line to receive rice at a village in Kungyangon. Photo / Reuters
Survivors of Cyclone Nargis wait in line to receive rice at a village in Kungyangon. Photo / Reuters

From AP YANGON, MYANMAR - The leader of Myanmar's military government made his first visit to a relief camp since Cyclone Nargis, patting heads of babies and shaking hands of survivors, amid growing international criticism over his government's handling of the crisis.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced that he would go to the disaster zone Wednesday to try to improve aid efforts in the country, also known as Burma.
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By Brian McCartan CHIANG MAI, Thailand - While the United Nations pleads for international aid worker access to Myanmar's cyclone-hit areas, the ruling junta is handling the natural disaster and the estimated 2 million people affected more as a national security issue than humanitarian operation.
Myanmar's 400,000-strong military has fallen back on its controversial security tactics to manage the crisis, including emerging cases of extortion, theft and movement restrictions. The country's under-resourced armed forces have received little if any training in disaster relief, but are well-versed in how to maintain control of hostile populations and carry out armed assaults.
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will travel to Myanmar this week to try to speed up troubled cyclone relief, his spokeswoman said yesterday, as signs mounted of a breakthrough in getting aid to survivors.
Ban's spokeswoman Michele Montas also said she expected there would be an international conference in Bangkok May 24 to marshal funds for the relief effort in the former Burma.
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YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar wants to host an aid-pledging conference in Yangon to pool foreign assistance to survivors of this month's devastating cyclone, Thailand's foreign minister said here on Monday.
The announcement comes as the UN's top disaster official John Holmes arrived in Myanmar on Sunday on a three-day visit to convince the reluctant regime to open the doors to a massive relief effort after Cyclone Nargis.
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YANGON, Myanmar (CNN) - Two weeks after Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar, the country's reclusive junta leader Than Shwe visited a refugee camp outside Yangon, according to video broadcast on state television.
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es) of rain, adding to the woes of the cyclone-affected masses.

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Thousands of children who survived Myanmar's cyclone will starve to death in two to three weeks unless food is rushed to them, an aid agency warned Sunday.
The warning case as an increasingly angry international community pleaded for approval to mount an all-out relief effort.
e Ban's telephone calls and has not answered two letters. Holmes will be carrying a third, U.N. spokesman Michele Montas said in New York.

YANGON: Thousands of children in Myanmar will starve to death in two to three weeks unless food is rushed to them, an aid agency warned today as an increasingly angry international community pleaded for approval to mount an all-out effort to help cyclone survivors.
The United Nations said Myanmar's isolationist ruling generals were even forbidding the import of communications equipment, hampering already difficult contact among relief agencies.
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By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will travel to Myanmar this week to discuss the troubled cyclone aid operations,

By ROBERT D. KAPLAN MAE SOT, THAILAND - More than 75000 people may have died as a result of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, and at least 1.5 million are homeless

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will travel to Myanmar this week to try to speed up troubled aid operations for victims of the