Surging food prices bite across Asia | From the rice paddies of Asia to the wheat fields of Australia, the soaring prices of food are breaking the budgets of the poor and raising the specters of hunger and unrest, experts warn. | A billi... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)The Manila Times
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
Rice crisis a 'silent tsunami' | BANGKOK - When cyclone Nargis swept through the Irrawaddy Delta, it shattered both Myanmar's famed rice bowl as well as any hope Asia's rice crisis might abate anytime soon. | It's not that the isol... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)Canada Dot Com BangkokCrisisMyanmarPhotosRice
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". | ... (photo: AP Photo / Pavel Rahman)The Australian ClimateDisasterNaturePhotosSociety
Grief is compounded by desperation | BURMA'S great Irrawaddy river runs flat and muddy. It twines and forks through kilometres of rich delta and has always given nurture and good fortune to the people of s... (photo: US Marine Corp / Ezekiel R. Kitandwe)The Australian AidBurmaDisasterPhotosSociety
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... (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 ... (photo: UN / Eric Kanalstein)The Australian BurmaDisasterMilitaryPhotosUN
News of USA's demise greatly exaggerated | Will Hutton, in The Observer, on why it is a bit premature to concede the 21st century to China or India | THE fashionable view is that the US economy is a busted flush... (photo: AP Photo / kalpana)The Australian ChinaEconomyIndiaPhotosUS
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
Warne offers to help Harbhajan | SHANE WARNE, emerging as the father figure of the Indian Premier League, last night offered a helping hand to controversial spinner Harbhajan Singh and said he was read... (photo: AP / )The Australian AustraliaCricketIndiaPhotosSports
