By Thomas Bell, South East Asia Correspondent Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary General, arrived in Rangoon on Thursday, as the junta began to evict

KYONDAH, Myanmar (AP) — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon surveyed devastated sections of Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta on Thursday and said he was very upset by

A Buddhist monk hands clothes to villagers in Dedaye in the Irrawaddy Delta, which was laid waste by cyclone Nargis. THE first of 10 helicopters contracted

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon tours Shwedagon pagoda shortly after his arrival in Yangon. Photo: AP THE United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon,

YANGON (AFP) — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday toured Myanmar's disaster area, on the first day of a visit aimed at pushing through a full

By Chris Hogg For the aid agencies who have struggled for more than two weeks to get relief supplies to the victims of Cyclone Nargis, there is now a new

For the first time in 44 years the UN's Secretary General has set foot in Myanmar. Ban Ki Moon had immediate talks with the foreign minister and meets the

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon set off on a helicopter tour of Burma's Irawaddy Delta today after a direct appeal to the country's military junta to

RANGOON, Burma - On the eve of a visit to Burma by the head of the United Nations, the European Union top aid official has deplored the reluctance of the

By VOA News UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Burma Thursday on a mission to speed up help for millions of cyclone victims.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has arrived in Burma to press the country's military leadership to accept a substantial relief operation for the survivors

It's believed at least 134000 people died since the cyclone hit Burma's Irrawaddy Delta region.[AFP] UN chief Ban Ki-moon has arrived in Burma to press the

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew into Myanmar on Thursday on a mission to persuade the country's ruling generals to let in a

The UN secretary-general has arrived in Myanmar to try to persuade the country's ruling generals to let in more of the foreign assistance needed by victims

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon is travelling to cyclone-hit Burma to tour the devastated Irrawaddy Delta and meet with military ruler Gen Than Shwe.

YANGON: Talks to speed up aid for cyclone-hit were last night termed as 'dialogue of the deaf' as the UN urged Myanmar to focus on saving lives and not

YANGON (AFP) — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday he would meet Myanmar's reclusive junta leader during a high-profile trip to convince the