Pragmatism has been placed above principle as the regime continues to turn its back on the West - even when it comes to accepting emergency aid. Andrew Buncombe reports from a delta where fear lingers alongside the misery
Friday, 16 May 2008
round his delta town that had overnight become home to more than 10,000 desperate refugees from cyclone Nargis. “You should be visiting the pagodas and temples,” he said.

By Mike Thomson Getting aid staff and relief supplies into Burma is already difficult. Criticise the country's generals and it threatens to become

By Emma-Kate Lidbury The devastation and suffering in cyclone-hit Burma might seem a distant concern in Oxford, but people in the city are being urged to do