Monday, May 19, 2008

Myanmar says ASEAN can lead cyclone aid effort

Myanmar agreed Monday to an international relief effort led by its regional allies to help more than two million cyclone victims still critically short of life-saving food, shelter and medicines.

As the junta declared three days of national mourning, the UN's top aid official John Holmes got a first-hand look at the scale of a disaster that has left at least 133,000 people dead or missing,

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