Jane Birkin and Burmese Monks Gather in Cannes For Peaceful Protest

Jane Birkin and Burmese Monks Gather in Cannes For Peaceful Protest

Actress Jane Birkin and Burmese monks take part in a peaceful protest at the rue Notre Dame during the 61st International Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2008 in Cannes, France. The Nargis cyclone devastated the country on May 2, 2008, leaving a death toll of over 100, 000 and more than one million people in need of urgent humanitarian aid. Photo by Hahn-Nebinger-Orban/ABACAPRESS.COM

Jane Birkin and Burmese Monks Gather in Cannes For Peaceful Protest

Jane Birkin and Burmese Monks Gather in Cannes For Peaceful Protest

Actress Jane Birkin and Burmese monks take part in a peaceful protest at the rue Notre Dame during the 61st International Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2008 in Cannes, France. The Nargis cyclone devastated the country on May 2, 2008, leaving a death toll of over 100, 000 and more than one million people in need of urgent humanitarian aid. Photo by Hahn-Nebinger-Orban/ABACAPRESS.COM

Donors press for int'l assessment of Myanmar cyclone damage

Donors press for int'l assessment of Myanmar cyclone damage

YANGON, Myanmar - Osamu Uno (L), Japan's vice minister of foreign affairs, and Yasuaki Nogawa, Japanese ambassador to Myanmar, attend an international aid conference in Yangon on Sunday. Officials from 57 countries and from international aid agencies attending the one-day conference called on Myanmar's junta to allow international assessment of the short- and long-term needs of an estimated 2.4 million people affected by Cyclone Nargis three weeks ago.

Survivors of killer cyclone take refuge in monastery in Myanmar

Survivors of killer cyclone take refuge in monastery in Myanmar

BOGALAY, Myanmar - A Buddhist monastery in Bogalay, a small delta town about 170 kilometers southwest of Yangon, is packed with survivors of Cyclone Nargis on May 8. People are taking refuge in the monastery after the cyclone devastated southern parts of Myanmar last weekend. Many farming and fishing villages in the Bogalay area were totally wiped out when 5-meter-high waves flooded the area, drowning more than half of its population, according to survivors. (Kyodo)

Donors press for int'l assessment of Myanmar cyclone damage

Donors press for int'l assessment of Myanmar cyclone damage

YANGON, Myanmar - Osamu Uno (L), Japan's vice minister of foreign affairs, and Yasuaki Nogawa, Japanese ambassador to Myanmar, attend an international aid conference in Yangon on Sunday. Officials from 57 countries and from international aid agencies attending the one-day conference called on Myanmar's junta to allow international assessment of the short- and long-term needs of an estimated 2.4 million people affected by Cyclone Nargis three weeks ago. (Kyodo)

U.N. chief meets cyclone survivors in Myanmar

U.N. chief meets cyclone survivors in Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (R) talks to victims of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar's southwestern village on May 22. Ban is visiting Myanmar to press the country's military leaders to allow international aid workers into the country to help hundreds of thousands of people affected by the cyclone two weeks ago. (Kyodo)