The stakes are high for India, balancing its Act East policy, border security and competition with China, all against the ...

Death Toll Rises in Myanmar as Aid Groups Face Obstacles A senior U.S diplomat in Myanmar said Wednesday that the death toll from Tropical Cyclone Nargis could reach 100,000, as disease outbreaks ...

A well-dressed man in glasses is frowning at me. I am on the dock of the last major town on the Irrawaddy, in the delta region where greenery has replaced the desert scrub of the dry zone.

Mocha came 15 years after one of Asia's deadliest cyclones, Nargis, smashed into Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta and claimed 140,000 lives. Cyclones are the equivalent of hurricanes in the Atlantic and ...

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Six months of the year, monsoons burst the banks turning dustbowls into swamps. A lacework of waterways covers the lowlands ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — It starts as Himalayan snowmelt, cascading through China as the Yang Tse, flowing east through Burma as the Irrawaddy ... Living on this delta means accepting and adapting ...