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.

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

This is surprising, for gourmets have always viewed hilsa from the Irrawaddy delta with scepticism, considering its taste inferior to the catch from the Ganga in Bengal or Padma and Meghna in ...