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Burma junta calls for rice planting help

Military rulers have appealed for international help to get its cyclone-hit Irrawaddy Delta farmers back to their paddy fields, amid concerns about future food shortages

Burma’s diaspora converts anger to aid

Relief sent through informal channels

Burma to allow in foreign aid workers

Regime acknowledges need for outside help

Asian nations join in Burma ‘mercy coalition’

Bid to address growing humanitarian crisis

Burmese junta pressed by US on relief flow

UN warns of disease outbreak without more aid

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Burma’s catastrophe in pictures

View the pictures from Rangoon and affected regions following the devastation caused by tropical cyclone Nargis

Burma slideshow

Comment and analysis

The irrelevance of national sovereignty

Willem Buiter

Maverecon blog: There has to be a point at which the cost of respecting and sustaining national sovereignty becomes grossly excessive

Holding the line: Burma’s junta subdues its people – and the world

Burma Monks

Six months on from the monk-led uprising, Rangoon’s military rulers are untroubled as China and the west diverge on how to promote change

Disasters and dictatorships

Christopher Caldwell

Burma has been pledged tens of millions of dollars and expertise, yet the generals act as if they would be doing the world a favour by accepting them, writes Christopher Caldwell

Burma’s tragedy

Let us at least hope this cyclone undermines the junta, whose response to this tragedy has already earned it a place in the annals of infamy

More stories

1.5m Burmese ‘face catastrophe’

Loyalty and lives put at risk by aid refusal

Burma defies calls to let aid workers in

UN urges Burma to delay referendum

Military junta still blocking cyclone aid

Fears rise as rice delta destroyed

Burma death toll could exceed 100,000

Burma regime accused of slowness

US navy stands by with Burma aid

Burma aid effort poses dilemma for generals

Burma deaths climb past 22,000 as aid begins

Burma junta presses on with poll

Junta blamed for stunting Burmese output

54 Burmese die sneaking over Thai border

Democracy in Burma back on UN agenda

Exiled Burmese leader attacks UN

Burma generals reject UN’s reform plans

Suu Kyi tops UN envoy’s agenda

Jakarta attacks Burma’s draft constitution

Burma vote pledge spurs hope and anger