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• May 9: A Myanmar woman displaced following last weekend's devastating cyclone sits with her children at a temporary shelter on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 9: Burmese villagers look at a damaged town in Twantay township, southern Myanmar.
• May 9: A Myanmar father who survived Cyclone Nargis takes care his son as they take shelter at a monastery in Bogalay, Myanmar.
• May 9: A helicopter carrying aid lands in Bogalay, Myanmar.
• May 9: Myanmar residents ride bicycles past electric poles that fell on a street after killer cyclone Nargis in Bogalay, Myanmar.
• May 9: A Myanmar resident rides his bicycle past houses damaged by killer cyclone Nargis in Bogalay, Myanmar.
• May 9: Myanmar villagers work to repair their home, which was damaged by last weekend's devastating cyclone in Twantay township, southern Myanmar.
• May 9: Myanmar residents watch a helicopter to land to provide relief goods at Bogalay, Myanmar.
• May 9: Myanmar people stand on the roof of buildings destroyed by killer cyclone Nargis at Bogalay, Myanmar.
• May 9: Workers fix a pagoda damaged by last weekend's devastating cyclone in Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 9: Protesters display placards as they picket the Embassy of Myanmar in the financial district of Makati city, east of Manila, to urge Myanmar's military junta to postpone the May 10 National Referendum following Saturday's devastating cyclone. The protesters also urged the junta to allow urgently needed humanitarian aid for the victims of the devastating cyclone that also killed tens of thousands of people.
• May 9: A Myanmar resident examines houses destroyed by Cyclone Nargis in Bogalay, Myanmar.
• May 9: Myanmar residents walk past houses destroyed by Cyclone Nargis in Bogalay, Myanmar.
• May 9: Foreign aid workers deliver relief goods at a town in Twantay Township, southern Myanmar.
• May 9: A Myanmar woman displaced following Cyclone Nargis fans her baby at a temporary shelter on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 9: A Myanmar resident carries rice while walking past houses damaged by Cyclone Nargis in Bogalay, Myanmar.
• May 9: Myanmar children who survived cyclone Nargis take shelter at a monastery at Bogalay, Myanmar. The U.N. blasted Myanmar's military government Friday, saying its refusal to let in foreign aid workers to help victims of the devastating cyclone was 'unprecedented' in the history of humanitarian work.
• May 9: German Red Cross helper Konrad Kerpa adjusts a mobile water and sanitation module for disaster areas in the central stock of German Red Cross for humanitarian aid at Berlin Schoenefeld airport. The German Red Cross was to send the module and Kerpa next week to Myanmar for relief actions after the cyclone disaster.
• May 7: Houses destroyed by Cyclone Nargis are seen in a village in the hardest-hit Irrawaddy delta, Myanmar.
• May 7: Houses destroyed by Cyclone Nargis are seen in a village in the hardest-hit Irrawaddy delta, Myanmar.
• May 8: A Myanmar woman looks at the damaged statue of Buddha at the Aung Zey Yong Pagoda and monastery in Kyauktan Township, southern Myanmar.
• May 8: A Burmese woman sleeps on top of tables as they wait for relief goods in Kyauktan Township, southern Myanmar.
• May 8: Families who were displaced from last weekend's devastating cyclone take shelter at a monastery in Kyauktan Township, southern Myanmar.
• May 8: Myanmar monks cut toppled trees outside a pagoda and monastery damaged by last weekend's devastating cyclone, in Kyauktan Township, southern Myanmar.
• May 8: A Myanmar girl eats a meal of rice and peanuts while staying at a shelter, in Kyauktan Township, in southern Myanmar.
• May 8: Myanmar monks clean up debris outside the damaged Aung Zey Yong Pagoda and monastery in Kyauktan Township, southern Myanmar.
• May 8: Myanmar men ride on a vehicle loaded with rice in Kyauktan Township, in southern Myanmar. The U.N.'s World Food Program says its first flight carrying aid has landed in Myanmar.
• May 8: A homeless woman whose house was destroyed in last weekend's devastating cyclone feeds her daughter while taking shelter at a monastery in Kaw Hmu village, about 62 miles southwest of Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 8: Myanmar monks remove a roof at a temple damaged by Cyclone Nargis on the outskirt of Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 8: Airport staffs load relief supplies for cyclone victims of Myanmar at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia.
• May 8: Residents wait for free rice from the government following devastating cyclone Nargis in the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 7: Staff of the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot load an Airbus 300 for Yangon, Myanmar, in the airport of Brindisi, South Italy. The UNHRD managed by the World Food Program has organized an airlift of aid worth around $ 560,000 on behalf of the Italian Foreign Ministry's Development Cooperation Office in response to urgent humanitarian assistance caused by tropical cyclone Nargis.
• May 7: A vehicle stops beside a toppled billboard in downtown Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 7: Women cross the street beside debris of fallen leaves and trees in downtown Yangon. Hungry crowds of survivors stormed a few shops that opened Wednesday in Myanmar's devastated Irrawaddy Delta, the U.N. said, with little aid reaching the area since a weekend cyclone killed more than 22,000 people.
• May 7: A worker tries to stop pigeons from eating packages of rice in Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 7: Passengers look on as they are transported on a boat in Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 7: A man talks on a phone at a stand selling food and use of the phone in Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 7: A girl carries a bucket of water in Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 7: A woman lays cloth to dry at a market in Yangon.
• May 7: Workers pour rice into bags to be loaded on to a truck for distribution, in Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 7: A man salvages some scraps as he walks past toppled trees after Cyclone Nargis hit in downtown Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 7: Workers load packages of rice on to a truck in Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 7: A man stands at the broken pier following a devastating cyclone in Yangon.
• May 7: A boy stands at the broken pier following devastating cyclone in Yangon.
• May 7: Workers load packages of rice on to a truck in Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 7: Cars line up for petrol at a station in Yangon, Myanmar. Cyclone victims in Myanmar's biggest city faced new challenges Wednesday as markets doubled prices of rice, charcoal and bottled water, belying government claims that life was returning to normal after a storm that claimed some 22,000 lives.
• May 7: Cars line up for petrol at a station in Yangon, Myanmar. Cyclone victims in Myanmar's biggest city faced new challenges Wednesday as markets doubled prices of rice, charcoal and bottled water, belying government claims that life was returning to normal after a storm that claimed some 22,000 lives.
• May 7: A worker cuts a fallen tree to clear a road following a devastating cyclone in Yangon. International aid began to trickle into Myanmar, but the stricken Irrawaddy Delta, the nation's rice bowl where 22,000 people perished and twice as many are missing, remained cut off from the world.
• May 6: Myanmar Buddhist nuns makes their way past a fallen tree following a devastating cyclone in Yangon.
• May 6: Advertising board is seen fallen following last weekend's devastating cyclone in Yangon.
• May 6: Workers try to repair a giant billboard destroyed by a devastating cyclone in Yangon.
• May 6: A resident walks past fallen tree following devastating cyclone in Yangon.
• May 6: A Myanmar man walks past branches and a damaged telephone booth following the weekend's devastating cyclone in Yangon.
• May 6: A Myanmar girl makes her way past a bus station destroyed by a last weekend cyclone in Yangon.
• May 6: A resident walks past a tree fallen by a devastating cyclone in Yangon.
• May 4: Western tourists make their way through fallen debris in Yangon, Myanmar, following Cyclone Nargis.
• May 4: Residents work to move an electrical pole following cyclone Nargis in Yangon.
• May 4: Western tourists make their way past an electrical pole in Yangon.
• May 6: An aerial view of devastation caused by the cyclone Nargis on Saturday is seen at an unknown location in Myanmar.
• May 6: Myanmar soldiers unload boxes of supplies from a Thai transport plane at Yangon airport in Myanmar.
• May 6: Myanmar soldiers unload drinking water from a Thai transport plane at Yangon airport in Myanmar.
• May 6: Myanmar soldiers and police officers unload boxes of supplies from a Thai transport plane at Yangon airport in Myanmar.
• May 6: Myanmar soldiers unload boxes of supplies from a Thai transport plane at Yangon airport.
• May 6: Myanmar soldiers unload boxes of supplies from a Thai transport plane at Yangon airport in Myanmar.
• May 6: A Myanmar man sits under a fallen tree following the weekend's devastating cyclone in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar announced it is delaying a crucial constitutional referendum in areas badly hit by the cyclone that killed more than 22,000 people and may have left as many as a million homeless.
• May 7: A house is seen after it was destroyed by Cyclone Nargis in Labutta, 105 miles southwest of Yangon, Myanmar.