GENEVA, May 6 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency on Tuesday was preparing emergency aid in Thailand for swift dispatch to some 10,000 desperate victims of this weekend's devastating cyclone in southern ...

The response by the Burmese regime to the cyclone disaster on 3 May 2008 shows that the junta is incapable of running the country, let alone helping the victims. Some aid-agency representatives offer ...

THA GYAR HIN OH, Myanmar -- The monsoons are due any day now, and for the hundreds of villagers with fresh memories of last year's deadly Cyclone Nargis, an emergency shelter that opened Saturday was ...

LABUTTA, Myanmar, Nov 7 (Reuters) - One month after Cyclone Nargis swept away his home and four children, Myint Oo returned to a makeshift tarpaulin shelter in his obliterated village in the Irrawaddy ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s government warned Saturday that a new cyclone barreling north into the Bay of Bengal could threaten the country’s western coast next week, raising fears the storm ...

YANGON, Myanmar -- The official death toll nearly doubled to 78,000 from Myanmar's killer cyclone as heavy rains Friday lashed much of the area stricken two weeks ago, further hampering relief efforts ...

As Cyclone Mocha approached Myanmar on May 14, 2023, winds roared as fast as 175 miles (280 kilometers) per hour, enough to make it a category 5 storm. Although the storm weakened slightly during the ...

BANGKOK, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Military-ruled Myanmar needs around $700 million in aid over the next three years to recover from last year's devastating cyclone, an aid coordinating group said on Monday.

Since the cyclone, a few reporters have managed to get into Myanmar, concealing the satellite phones, battery packs and generators needed to operate in the cyclone-hit areas where electricity is down ...

BANGKOK, May 5 -- Burma's military government told foreign diplomats Monday that the death toll from a devastating weekend cyclone could reach 10,000, as officials made a rare appeal for international ...

World Vision, one of the few aid agencies with people working in Myanmar, has offered a few hints at the aftermath of a deadly cyclone there, describing piles of bodies and a massive rice-growing ...