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• June 3: Workers unload teak wood used to repair cyclone damaged buildings on Chaungtha beach in the Irrawaddy Delta region 98 miles west of Rangoon, Burma
• June 3: A farmer outside the village on Chaungtha beach in the Irrawaddy Delta region 98 miles west of Rangoon, Burma.
• June 3: A woman in the village on Chaungtha beach in the Irrawaddy Delta region 98 miles west of Rangoon, Burma.
• May 29: People line up outside an aid tent in Rangoon, Burma, awaiting medical treatment.
• May 29: People line up outside an aid tent in Rangoon, Burma, awaiting medical treatment.
• May 28: A helicopter is towed on the tarmac after being unloaded from a Royal Australian Air Force transport aircraft at the military airport in Bangkok, Thailand. The helicopters were transported from Johannesburg, South Africa to Thailand to be used by the World Food Program to bolster the relief operation in response to the havoc wrought by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar.
• May 28: An Australian solider walks beside helicopters inside a Royal Australian Air Force transport aircraft at the military airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday.
• May 28: Australian soldiers unload one of the two helicopters from a Royal Australian Air Force transport aircraft at the military airport in Bangkok, Thailand. The helicopters were transported from Johannesburg, South Africa to Thailand to be used by World Food Program to bolster the relief operation in response to the havoc wrought by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar.
• May 28: Australian soldiers unload one of the two helicopters from a Royal Australian Air Force transport aircraft at the military airport in Bangkok, Thailand.
• May 28: Some 1,000 tons of humanitarian supplies for shipment to Myanmar by the United Nations are unloaded from the French warship Mistral on the resort island of Phuket, Thailand. The Myanmar government has forbidden direct aid by warships of France, the United States and Great Britain, which have been standing by off the Myanmar coast to deliver the assistance.
• May 28: Some 1,000 tons of humanitarian supplies for shipment to Myanmar by the United Nations are unloaded from the French warship Mistral on the resort island of Phuket, Thailand.
• May 28: Some 1,000 tons of humanitarian supplies for shipment to Myanmar by the United Nations are unloaded from the French warship Mistral on the resort island of Phuket, Thailand.
• May 27: A cyclone survivor has lunch from a local donor at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.More than three weeks after the storm, people huddled along roadsides, desperate for any sort of handout. The U.N. estimated less than half the 2.4 million people victimized by the May 2-3 storm had received emergency assistance.
• May 27: Cyclone survivors drink clean water from a local donor at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 27: Cyclone survivors eat lunch provided by a local donor at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 27: Cyclone survivors line up for rice from a local donor at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 27: Local donors prepare bags of rice to be given to cyclone survivors at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 27: Cyclone survivors eat lunch provided by a local donor at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 27: Members of the Myanmar opposition party National League for Democracy hold a portrait of party's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, during a protest in Yangon, Myanmar.
• May 27: Members of the Myanmar opposition party National League for Democracy chant slogans during a protest demanding the release of party's leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon, Myanmar. The banner reads 'Free Aung San Suu Kyi immediately'.
• May 27: Myanmar student Buddhist monks hold pictures of the country's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, second right, and her late father Gen. Aung San, who led the country's independence war, and chant during a protest in front of Myanmar's Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The protestors demanded that the military junta accept international aid for cyclone victims and release all political prisoners.
• May 27: Members of the Myanmar opposition party National League for Democracy, holding a portrait of their leader Aung San Suu Kyi, stage a protest in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar's military junta extended the detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday, ignoring worldwide appeals to free the Nobel laureate who has been detained for more than 12 of the past 18 years, an official said. About 20 of the protesters were later detained.
• May 27: Protesters shout slogans during a rally outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. Security was stepped up around detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house Tuesday as Myanmar's military junta faced a deadline to decide whether to release her or extend her house arrest for another year.
• May 27: Cyclone survivors receive medical treatment from a local volunteer doctor at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.