A powerful cyclone killed more than 350 people and destroyed thousands of homes, state-run media said Sunday. Some dissident groups worried that the military junta running Myanmar would be reluctant ...
Hundreds of thousands of people are still without decent jobs and housing a year after Cyclone Nargis ripped through Myanmar, leaving many vulnerable to the coming monsoon rains and mired in a life of ...
-- Nearly 140,000 people died and 2.4 million were severely affected. -- The cyclone was the worst to hit Asia since 1991, when 143,000 people died in Bangladesh. It was the worst natural disaster to ...
YANGON, Myanmar — The aid agency Caritas Internationalis is at work in Myanmar, where the death toll could reach 500,000 after May 3’s pounding from Tropical Cyclone Nargis. Caritas is coordinating ...
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- It was Asia's answer to Hurricane Katrina. Packing winds upwards of 120 mph, Cyclone Nargis became one of Asia's deadliest storms by hitting land at one of the lowest points ...
Envisat captured Cyclone Nargis making its way across the Bay of Bengal just south of Myanmar on 1 May 2008. The cyclone hit the coastal region and ripped through the heart of Myanmar on Saturday, ...
May 2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1519, Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist, scientist and inventor, died at age 67. In 1611, a new translation of the Bible in England, popularly called the King ...
Aid groups in the war-torn country say they are having trouble gaining access to areas affected by the storm without approval from the junta. By Richard C. Paddock A cyclone called Mocha damaged ...
May 2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1519, Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist, scientist and inventor, died at age 67. In 1611, a new translation of the Bible in England, popularly called the King ...
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