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The death toll from the Myanmar cyclone could top 100,000, the top US diplomat in the country said Wednesday, as thousands of shell-shocked survivors emerged from the flood waters, desperate for food. “There may well be over 100,000 deaths in the delta area,” Shari Villarosa, the US charge d’affaires in Yangon, told reporters in Washington [...]

State radio reported Saturdays vote on a draft constitution would be delayed until May 24 in 40 townships around Yangon and seven in the Irrawaddy delta, which bore the brunt of the killer storm. Kyaw Hsan confirmed at a news conference that some 4000 people had died in Yangon and the low-lying Irrawaddy delta region. [...]

Myanmars state-owned television and radio reported that 4,000 people died in the storm which struck Myanmar on Saturday. The UN says that hundreds of thousands of people have been affected. Cyclone Nargis caused serious damage to CAREs offices in Yangon, although none of CAREs staff in the office were hurt. However, CARE has resources in [...]

So, heres how the story apparently goes. Back in the days, around the time when we had just gotten our independence, there were quite a few people from the region who were working in plantations in Burma. There was a sizeable working population that was from India, and life went on. Quite a few countries [...]