Yangon, Burma Travel News

Aid agencies in cyclone-hit Myanmar will have to charter their own planes after the United Nations ends free flights between Yangon and Bangkok on Aug.

A life-altering journey to Myanmar From Gretchen Canter of Austin. Most people cannot locate Myanmar on a globe and might wonder why anyone would go there, particularly a family with four children.

As a global non-profit and non-governmental organisation the famoushotels.org has identified a group of hotel employees in Myanmar who need help.

The landslides struck just six weeks after deadly Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta and the main city of Yangon.

RED TAPE: Human Rights Watch said new rules require aid workers to obtain permits from Myanmar's government ministries, the UN, the ASEAN and township officials AFP AND AP, BANGKOK AND YANGON, MYANMAR Saturday, ...

The following dispatch was written for ABC News by a journalist who has been inside Myanmar.

AFP, JAKARTA, BANGKOK AND KUALA LUMPUR Wednesday, Jun 04, 2008, Page 5 ASEAN said yesterday that a team of experts had started work in Myanmar to assess the country s aid needs a month after a devastating ...

The World Food Programme hopes to have 10 helicopters delivering food and other relief supplies to cyclone victims in the Irrawaddy delta as early as the end of the week, officials said Wednesday.

A 200-strong team of aid experts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the UN started deploying in Myanmar's cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta on Thursday, ASEAN said.

Relief agencies said Monday they are still having trouble reaching survivors of last month's cyclone in Myanmar, despite the government's promises of access.

The usually deserted runways and warehouses of Bangkok's Don Mueang airport have sprung alive as relief supplies for Myanmar rush in from around the globe.

Myanmar's junta extended the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday, a move likely to dismay Western nations who promised millions of dollars in aid after Cyclone Nargis.

Getty Images As the Junta fails, the monks work to provide humanitarian assistance in Myanmar.

Myanmar's military government is forcing cyclone victims out of shelters and refugee camps and sending some back to their devastated villages with virtually no aid supplies, United Nations and church officials ...

Myanmar student Buddhist Monks, hold pictures of the country's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, and her late father Gen.

Individual volunteers are free to travel into regions devastated by Cyclone Nargis to give donations to storm victims, Myanmar's tightly controlled state media insisted yesterday.

BANGKOK : Myanmar is allowing some foreign aid workers to enter remote areas hard hit by the May 3 cyclone in what relief agencies said Tuesday appeared to be the beginning of a new policy that fulfills a ...

Myanmar's failure to grant foreign aid workers unfettered access to cyclone devastated areas threatened Sunday to overshadow a vital conference aimed at securing billions of dollars for reconstruction.

Donor nations said they were ready to provide Myanmar with more than $100 million to help it recover from Cyclone Nargis, but warned the ruling junta Sunday they will not fully open their wallets until they are provided access to the hardest-hit areas.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, speaking to The Associated Press after a one-day meeting of 51 donor nations, said he believed a turning point had been reached in getting Myanmar's isolationist junta to allow foreign aid workers unhindered entry into the devastated Irrawaddy delta.

YANGON - Myanmar was promised nearly $50 million in cyclone aid on Sunday, but some Western donor countries said their cash was contingent on the junta keeping its word on letting in foreign ...