London, May 11 : Aid for Cyclone Nargis survivors in Myanmar is trickling in sporadically, and the United Nations fears that only a quarter of the survivors have received aid so far....

Wellington: New Zealand will send a 30-strong team to the Paralympic Games in Beijing in September, Radio New Zealand has...

Kathmandu, May 11 : Newly appointed Indian ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood on Sunday called on the Communist Party of Nepal- Maoist (CPN-M) leadership....

Kathmandu, May 11 : Madhesi People's Rights Forum (MPRF) on Sunday floated the proposal to form the new government prior to the first sitting of the Constituent Assembly...

Lahore, May 11 : Six years after he was banned for life from playing all forms of cricket for and in Pakistan, former captain Salim Malik is expecting a reprieve from the country's Supreme Court, which has agreed to grant him an appeal...

Islamabad, May 11 : Pakistan will export about 52,000 tons of cement to India in the next two...

Kathmandu, May 11 : Nepal Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has announced that he has started a dialogue with leaders of all political parties within the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) and other newly emerged Terai-based parties on the issue of government formation and commencement of smooth proceedings of the Constituent Assembly which is set to convene within a...

Karachi, May 11 : Inter-faith prayers were offered at the Jinnah Medical and Dental College here on Saturday for Indian peace activist Nirmala Deshpande, who recently died in New Delhi....

Lahore, May 11 : Lawyers across Pakistan will observe Monday (May 12) as a "Black Day" to condemn the killing of innocent civilians in Karachi on the same day last year....

Karachi, May 11 : Former Pakistan cricket captain Majid Khan has emerged as a frontrunner for the post of chairman of the International Cricket Council's cricket committee in wake of Sunil Gavaskar's resignation from the post last...

Islamabad, May 11 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza gilani and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Asif Ali Zardari are reported to be seriously thinking of dissolving the National Assembly if their coalition arrangement with Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)...

Islamabad, May 11 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has reportedly advised President Pervez Musharraf to pardon Indian death row inmate Sarabjit Singh after reviewing his...

New Delhi, May 11 : External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to propose new confidence-building measures (CBMs) to Pakistan during his forthcoming visit to Islamabad on May...

London, May 11 : Talks between key leaders of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) on the sacked judges' restoration issue being held here have ended in a...

Survivors of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar are overwhelming the country's crumbling hospitals and health service.More food aid has reached the military-ruled country but there's no sign the government...

John McCain. Photo / Reuters ST PAUL - The man picked by Senator John McCain's campaign to run the 2008 Republican National Convention resigned yesterday after a report that his lobbying firm used to...

(newser) – A Red Cross aid boat delivering desperately needed supplies to the survivors of Cyclone Nargis hit a submerged tree and sank in Burma's Irrawaddy Delta today, reports CNN. All those on...

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Police detained more than 600 female Tibetan protesters, including many Buddhist nuns, on Sunday after breaking up several demonstrations in Nepal's capital against ...

THE death toll from Cyclone Nargis has reached 28,458 with 33,416 missing, state-run Burma TV has reported today. The brief broadcast did not elaborate except to say that 1,403 people had been...

5/11/2008, 12:10 p.m. EDT YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A Red Cross boat carrying rice and drinking water for cyclone victims sank Sunday, while the death toll jumped to more than 28,000 and aid...

(AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)Myanmar soldiers unload bags of supplies aid, donated by Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, from a Thai military plane onto a truck at Yangon airport in Myanmar Sunday, May...

KATMANDU — Police detained more than 600 female Tibetan protesters, including many Buddhist nuns, on Sunday after breaking up several demonstrations against China's recent crackdown in Tibet. ...

A cargo plane chartered by the International Committee of the Red Cross has arrived Burma's major city of Rangoon, carrying aid for people harmed by the country's recent cyclone. An ICRC statement...

BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's ruling party won control of the country's tense Eastern Province on Sunday after an election that monitors said was marred by voter intimidation and...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - An international aid group warns that as many as 1.5 million people in Myanmar could die from disease if they don't get clean water and sanitation soon. Oxfam's regional...

KYZYL-KIYA, Kyrgyzstan (AP) -- In the impoverished Ferghana Valley in Kyrgyzstan, illegal coal mining is a dirty, dangerous part of the underground...

Myanmar family members, who survived last week's destructive cyclone Nargis, stand outside their broken house at Mangalay village in Pyapon, Delta region of Myanmar, Sunday, May 11, 2008. (AP...

(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)Pakistani rights activists shout slogans against President Pervez Musharraf, during a protest calling for the reinstatement of judges in Islamabad, Pakistan on Friday, May...

News ) - As the bloated bodies rise and fall with the current, women scrub clothes along the river bank, villagers bathe to cool themselves and a lone child sits on a dock staring aimlessly into the...

May 11, 2008 · At least a million and a half people in Myanmar are in need of food and shelter. Aid teams are arriving slowly from Thailand, but many relief workers are still awaiting...

-- The military junta forged ahead Saturday with a constitutional referendum intended to cement its power after a campaign of arm-twisting and intimidation, even as it continued to restrict foreign...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The man picked by the John McCain campaign to run the 2008 Republican National Convention has resigned after a report that his lobbying firm used to represent the military...

BANGKOK, 11 May 2008 (IRIN) - The Burmese government has invited three organisations – World Vision, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) – to...

BANGKOK, 11 May 2008 (IRIN) - An estimated 1.5 million people in Myanmar are on the brink of a "massive public health catastrophe," the British charity Oxfam warned this weekend, as reports say...

Kathmandu - Nepalese police Sunday arrested more than 550 Tibetan demonstrators, most of them women, during anti-China protests in the capital Kathmandu. The demonstrators, including Tibetan nuns,...

Yangon - Myanmar's ruling junta upped the official death toll from Cyclone Nargis to 28,458 Sunday, but horror stories filtering into the former capital Yangon with the homeless suggest a much higher...

Pakistani leaders yet to agree on deal to restore judges sacked by president Coalition leaders Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif meeting in London Rulers had set a self-imposed deadline of May 12 to...

. "In any authoritarian country, they try to legitimise themselves through the ballot box," he said. The poll -- held in all but the areas worst-hit by the cyclone, which will vote...

Myanmar , among the globe's poorest and most authoritarian nations, is reeling from a natural disaster of such magnitude that both the people's suffering and political aftershocks are certain to...

Posted on: Sunday, 11 May 2008, 09:00 CDT Text of report in English by Japan's largest news agency Kyodo ["UNICEF Official Says Aid Desperately Needed in Cyclone-Hit Myanmar" - Kyodo headline]...

Posted on: Sunday, 11 May 2008, 09:00 CDT Text of report in English by Burmese newspaper The New Light of Myanmar on 11 May [Editorial: "Public health care notices to keep victims free from...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A deadline for Pakistan's coalition partners to reinstate judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf was expected to pass on Monday, rekindling speculation the government might...

Destroyed boats are seen in Pyapon, a town in the Irrawaddy delta of Myanmar, a week after devastating cyclone Nagris slammed into the low-lying region and Yangon. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS YANGON,...

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's state television says the death toll in last week's cyclone has jumped by about 5,000 to 28,458. It says that the number of missing now stands at 33,416. ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's military regime has been handing out international relief supplies after having generals' names plastered on the boxes. Election day news coverage showed top...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali police detained 562 Tibetan women at an anti-China rally in Kathmandu on Sunday, the first all-women protest against Chinese rule in their homeland, officials...

MANILA, Philippines--The Philippine Air Force will transport a Philippine humanitarian contingent to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar (Burma) on Monday, once its junta government gives the go signal, the PAF...

Ministers have condemned Burma's military rulers for their slow response to offers of international humanitarian aid since last weekend's cyclone. Foreign Secretary David Miliband accused the...

Yangon- Missing a straw hat that's now probably lying somewhere in a rice field, Nu Nu Yi sits amid the devastation wrought by Cyclone Nargis. Asked if the government had distributed enough food, she...

BANGKOK -- Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, who has a notoriously combative relationship with his country's press, threatened on Sunday to sue two local newspapers. Speaking on his weekly...