Eight camps set up by the government for homeless victims in the Irrawaddy delta town of Bogalay are “totally empty,” UNICEF official Teh Tai Ring told a meeting of aid groups.
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Singapore’s prime minister said Friday Myanmar’s military rulers are afraid to let in international aid workers to help cyclone victims because it might expose their own powerlessness.

“The military leaders surely know that foreign aid will save lives and help to rebuild the devastated areas,” Lee said in a speech opening a three-day Asia-Pacific security conference. “But they also fear the political consequences of opening up the disaster zone to international aid teams. This might show up their own incapability, and undermine their credibility and legitimacy.
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An estimated 2.4 million people remain homeless and hungry after the May 2-3 cyclone hit Myanmar, also known as Burma. Myanmar’s government says the cyclone killed 78,000 people and left another 56,000 missing.'

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Officials drove to the Nobel laureate's lakeside home in Rangoon to read out a six-month extension order , said a government official, who asked not to be named. However, a diplomat based in the city said it was for a year.

Ms. Suu Kyi, 62, whose National League for Democracy (NLD) party won a 1990 election landslide only to be denied power by the army, has now spent nearly 13 of the past 18 years under some form of arrest."

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