The worst natural disaster in living memory, however, was Cyclone Nargis in 2008, which left at least 140,000 dead. On that occasion, the military junta resisted international assistance, likely ...

The Bureau of Meteorology expects a tropical low in waters off Western Australia's north coast to form into a cyclone on Sunday. Residents and businesses in the East Kimberley region have started ...

A tropical cyclone is likely to form off the north coast of WA in a matter of days, with signs that it could become a severe tropical cyclone next week. A tropical low is currently developing over the ...

In the aftermath of the devastating Cyclone Nargis of 2008, which killed upward of 100,000 people across southern Myanmar, the junta of the time pressed ahead with a constitutional referendum.

A late-season tropical cyclone could form near northern Australia next week, which would make this Australia’s most active cyclone season in six years. The influence of an equatorial Rossby wave ...

As Burma, also known as Myanmar, struggles in the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake, Reverend Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse, praised the swift cooperation of the Burmese ...

In between the two, Cyclone Nargis devastated the Ayeyarwady Delta in 2008, killing nearly 200,000 people and inflicting $4 billion in damages. Asean facilitated the establishment of the ...

The country has long been vulnerable to natural disasters, with Cyclone Nargis in 2008 exposing the military junta’s failure to deliver timely relief—resulting in over 138,000 deaths and 1.5 ...

the ruling junta declared a state of emergency in the hardest-hit cities and issued a plea for international aid — a move that represents a stark contrast to the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis that ...