By Al Pessin The US military sent five more planeloads of relief supplies to Burma Wednesday, but Thailand's prime minister said after a visit to the

The UN has sharply increased its estimate of those severely affected by Burma's cyclone to 2.5m people. The figure was revised up from the 1.5m previously

The countryside cries for help, the ruling generals dither, and Prime Minister Thein Sein goes to see for himself. Surrounded by his generals,

Burma is at risk of famine in the aftermath of the cyclone that destroyed rice stocks in a leading agricultural region, European Union humanitarian aid