Pakistan's parallel courts proposal 'farcical' | ATTEMPTS to reinstate Pakistan's anti-Musharraf judges approached high farce yesterday when proposals were mooted for parallel supreme courts as the only way out of the impasse. | With another deadl... (photo: AP/Anjum Naveed)The Australian
Deadly power of 'delicate daffodil' | NARGIS, the name of the killer cyclone that has devastated Burma, was revealed by Indian officials yesterday to be an Urdu language word meaning "delicate daffodil". | BP Yadav, director of the Indi... (photo: AP Photo / Pavel Rahman)The Australian
US help could save thousands of lives | ONE April day in 1991, the world awoke to the news that a devastating cyclone and tidal wave had struck the coast of Bangladesh. As bodies washed ashore by the thousand and the death toll rose to 13... (photo: US Navy file/PHAN Nicholas Morton)The Australian AidDisasterPhotosSocietyUS
Give generals the boot, it's the only way | THE United Nations this week said the refusal of Burma's Government to allow workers into the country's devastated agricultural region was unprecedented in the history of humanitarian relief. | The ... (photo: UN / Eric Kanalstein)The Australian BurmaDisasterMilitaryPhotosUN
Tear down Burma's bamboo curtain | Thousands more will die if aid does not start flowing | THERE seems to be no underestimating the brutality of Burma's regime as millions of people struggle to stay aliv... (photo: AP / )The Australian BurmaDisasterPhotosSocietyUN
Refugees flee disaster zone | DESPERATE survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of Burma's Irrawaddy Delta yesterday in search of food, water and medicine as aid workers warned that up to 1.5 million... (photo: U.S. Department of State / )The Australian AidBurmaDisastersPhotosRefugeeSlideshow
Junta claims credit for help | RANGOON: Burma's military regime has distributed international aid, plastering the boxes with names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the cyclone relief eff... (photo: U.S. Department of State / )The Australian AidBurmaDisastersJuntaPhotos
It's time for an aid intervention | WHAT are we waiting for? Where now is liberal interventionism? | More than 100,000 people are dead after a cyclone in the Irrawaddy Delta and the UN has declared that u... (photo: U.S. Department of State / )The Australian AidBurmaMillionPhotosUN
Australia lifts Burma aid to $25m | FOREIGN Minister Stephen Smith has announced Australia will boost its aid commitment to Burma more than eight times to $25million in the wake of Cyclone Nargis. | The l... (photo: U.S. Department of State / )The Australian AidAustraliaBurmaMillionPhotosSlideshow
