Bangkok/Yangon -  A desperate international push to get food, water and medicine out to remote ar

Frankfurt  - A German civil-defence team was flying Tuesday to Myanmar to assess sites for water-purification plants in the disaster area after Cyclone Nargis, the THW agency said in Frankfurt.

Manila  - A Philippine medical team bound for Myanmar to help victims of a deadly cyclone was stuck in Manila after failing to secure travel documents to the reclusive nation, a government spokesma

Yangon  - They allegedly can be recognized by their sophisticated cellphones.

Myanmar, a country ruled by the military for the past 46 years, is a spy state. Government agents lurk in every corner, and also in the hotels of the country's largest city and main port, Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon, where now many foreign journalists have gathered in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis.

Reporters who attract too much attention are immediately taken to the airport and deported. Myanmar's rulers have little regard for the concept of a free press.

Bangkok  - Thai Prime Min

Singapore  - Welfare organizations in Singapore have received permission from Myamnar's military