United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has responded to international alarm over the estimated 2.5 million people left destitute by Birma's cyclone by saying he'll send his top relief Aid offers mount to cyclone-damaged Burma.
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Bayern pads lead at top of Bundesliga table ... coordinator to press Burma's regime to open access to aid agencies. The coordinator John Holmes has been waiting since Wednesday for a visa, according to a UN spokeswoman. On Thursday British premier Gordon Brown said he expected an emergency summit to be held in Asia but gave no details on when or where it would be held. An aid worker of the German agency Diakonie in Rangoon Peter Rottach says survivors are dying of starvation, thirst and disease. Journalists who've visited Burma's Irrawaddy Delta which took the brunt of Cyclone Nargis two weeks ago say thousands of survivors are begging for food. The Burmese state newspaper New Light says the country can rebuild the devastated region without foreign help. The regime says its referendum staged last Saturday delivered 92 percent approval for a new constitution.
(Deutsche Welle)
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