Cyclone Nargis

BBC producer Paul Danahar reported under cover from Myanmar in the days following Cyclone Nargis, all the while trying to avoid detection and arrest. He was eventually tracked down by the military authorities and deported. He was then sent to report on the devastating earthquake in China. He tells The Takeaway about his own experience […]

There were dire predictions for the fate of Myanmar’s cyclone survivors after the military government there kept out international aid, but it appears that the situation for the survivors may not be as bad as originally feared

Foreign aid workers are starting to get into Myanmar (Burma) to help out in the cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy Delta; Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with one of those workers, Tony Banbury of the UN’s World Food Program.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Paul Risley, the UN World Food Program’s spokesman for Asia, about continuing efforts to get aid to devastated parts of Myanmar (Burma) in the wake of the deadly cyclone there.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Katy Barnett, of Save the Children; the group already had an aid operation inside Myanmar before the cyclone hit two weeks ago