According to a commission statement, “The European Commission on Thursday pledged an additional 40.5 million euros (US $58.7 million) to the Burmese people inside the country and along its borders.”

As per the statement, nearly 22 million euros will go to the people affected by the Cyclone Nargis in the Irrawaddy delta and about 18.5 million euros will go to help the highly vulnerable people in the remote regions along the Sino-Burmese border and in the Burmese refugee camps on the Thailand-Burma border, via the operational partners such as nongovernmental organizations, UN agencies and the Red Cross.

The cyclone which hit on 2-3 May, took the lives of more than 14,000 people and many were missing following the cyclone.

Rangoon, Nov. 22: Secret courts in Burma have sentenced a popular comedian and a hip-hop star to hefty jail terms as the military regime of that country continues to crack down on dissidents.

Comedian Zargana, detained in June for criticising the government''s slow response to Cyclone Nargis in interviews with foreign news groups, was sentenced to 45 years in jail.

A court inside Rangoon''s notorious Insein prison convicted Zargana, an outspoken satirist who has already been jailed four times, of violating the Electronics Act.

London, May 10: The United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) has stopped emergency food shipments to the zone where Cyclone Nargis had hit, fearing that the Burmese Government will give the aid p

Yangon, Feb 19: Burma will send an official delegation to the DEFEXPO being held in New Delhi.