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Burma authorities approve single US aid aircraft

Authorities in Burma have given approval for a single US military aircraft carrying relief supplies to land in the country on Monday.

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Triumph for Beijing as Olympic flame reaches the top of the world

Friday, 9 May 2008

Chinese Olympic pride reached new peaks yesterday as mountaineers held the Olympic flame aloft on the summit of Everest, the most spectacular moment yet in a global torch relay dogged by Tibetan independence protests.

While the people plead for food, the junta is handing out TV sets

Friday, 9 May 2008

People in the Burmese village of Nyung Wine, barely more than an hour outside Rangoon, are wondering why no one has visited them. Of the approximatly 200 houses close to a glittering gold pagoda next to the Kyauktan river, an estimated 185 were damaged by Cyclone Nargis. "Nobody has been to help," said a villager, U San They, as he led the way through the ruins of homes smashed by the storm that swept the Irrawaddy delta last Saturday, killing at least 23,000 people and leaving 1.5 million people at risk, according to the latest estimates from the United Nations..

China puts positive spin on relations with Japan

Friday, 9 May 2008

Pandas and ping-pong helped sweeten politics yesterday on day three of the Chinese President Hu Jintao's state trip to Japan, which is warming frigid ties between the two old enemies despite being marred by controversy over Tibet.

Burma finally lifts restrictions on some aid

Thursday, 8 May 2008

Burma today finally let in the first major international aid airlift for survivors of the cyclone that may have killed more than 100,000 people.

17 Britons in Burma fail to make contact

Thursday, 8 May 2008

Seventeen Britons in Burma remain unaccounted for following the devastating cyclone that killed as many as 100,000 people, the Foreign Office said today.

Front line of a disaster: Inside Burma's dead zone

Thursday, 8 May 2008

By the time the last of the daylight was slipping from the sky, it seemed as though every other home we were passing had been flattened.

Deadly virus threatens China's children

Thursday, 8 May 2008

Chinese health authorities are grappling with a virus that has killed 28 children and is set to claim more lives, with reports of a preliminary cover-up of the highly contagious disease echoing the Sars epidemic of 2003.

Aid agencies face battle to reach victims of the cyclone

Wednesday, 7 May 2008

As the death toll from the Burmese cyclone rose yesterday, with up to 62,000 people now feared dead, witnesses spoke of the homelessness, hunger and disease now threatening the worst-affected areas.

Tibet threat to Sino-Japanese rapprochement elations

Wednesday, 7 May 2008

The Chinese President, Hu Jintao, arrived in Tokyo yesterday on a historic mission to bring what he called a "warm spring of friendship" to a bilateral relationship battered by rows over history, territory – and dumplings.

Junta under pressure to allow international aid

Wednesday, 7 May 2008

The Burmese junta came under mounting international pressure to allow aid agencies unrestricted access to the disaster-ravaged country last night as governments pledged more than $10m for emergency relief efforts.

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