Myanmar’s ruling junta lashed out at foreign aid donors Friday, saying cyclone victims did not need supplies of “chocolate bars” and could instead survive by eating frogs and fish. The New Light of Myanmar newspaper, a government mouthpiece, also warned that foreign relief workers could snoop inside homes, and condemned donors for linking aid money to full access to the hardest-hit... 

MANILA - Indonesia’s foreign minister chided Myanmar on Wednesday for extending the detention of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, the first criticism of the junta’s move by a fellow Southeast Asian nation. Hassan Wirajuda told reporters in Manila that the action by Myanmar’s generals was even more regrettable since it came while the world was busy helping Myanmar recover from a killer... 

BANGKOK - Donor nations, meeting yesterday in Burma, pressed the government to make good on its promise to allow foreign aid workers free access to millions of isolated cyclone survivors. Leading the one-day meeting of 52 countries, the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki Moon, said that the government was “moving fast in the right direction” and that he was confident Burma would... 

The Burmese military government today agreed to let in “all” aid workers to help the 2.4 million survivors of Cyclone Nargis. The junta’s leader, General Than Shwe, made the announcement during a meeting with the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon. The decision comes some three weeks after the devastating cyclone swept through the south-east Asian country, leaving nearly 134,000 dead... 

Myanmar’s military government raised its death toll on Tuesday from the devastating Cyclone Nargis to just under 22,500 people, state media reported. An additional 41,000 people were missing as a result of the cyclone, which ploughed into the Irrawaddy delta on Saturday, triggering a massive storm surge that swept inland. “More deaths were caused by the tidal wave than the storm itself,”...