Yangon and Bangkok - The official death toll from Cyclone Nargis is now 78,000, Myanmar stat

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Bangkok - Warnings of a second cyclone heading for Myanmar, which is reeling from the impact of Cyclone Nargis, have been cancelled, meteorologists said Thursday.

Bangkok  - Chances are "good" that a storm in the Indian Ocean could be upgraded to a cyclone as

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Bangkok/Yangon - An international emergency aid push for some 1.9 million Myanmar villagers and farmers devastated by Cyclone Nargis was gathering steam Monday as planeloads of goods arrived in Yangon, but agencies still complained of a lack of visas for foreign aid workers.

The first of three cargo planes with a total of 110 tons of tents, medical material and drugs, pumps and generators for water and sanitation, and ready-to-use therapeutic food from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) arrived in Yangon Monday morning, said Veronique Terrasse, spokeswoman for MSF in Bangkok.