Climate chaos: Super Cyclone Amphan

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Cyclone Amphan: Top 10 most destructive visuals caught on camera

Super-cyclone Amphan has claimed over 10 lives so far and lakhs (100s of thousands) of people have been evacuated. Take a look at some of the dreaded scenes which were witnessed due to the furious cyclone.

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Life on the Thai-Burma border

Burmese people wanting to get into Thailand are able to do so on rubber inner tubes, but many are then sent back by Thai authorities on semi-official boats (BBC).

(BBC) 2010 looks set to be a crucial year for Burma, with the military government planning to stage the first elections in twenty years. Western nations are pursuing new policies of pragmatic engagement and rethinking their sanctions against the reclusive [totalitarian] state.

However, progress may seem like a distant prospect for ordinary Burmese people, who rely on neighboring Thailand to trade goods or access basic services like healthcare. In the first part of a series looking at life in the region, the BBC's Rachel Harvey reports from the border town of Mae Sot, in the far north of Thailand. She finds out about the different ways people manage to cross from one country into the other. Listen now:

Generation Wave is a group of hip-hop loving, young Burmese people, dedicated to overthrowing the military government. Rachel Harvey visits them at their safe house in Mae Sot. More>>

• BBC Burmese Service

China's Triumph and Troubles

1. Painting of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong declaring the founding of People's Republic of China on Oct. 1, 1949 moves past the Tiananmen Square during a parade celebrating China's 60th anniversary in Beijing, China, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009. To mark 60 years of communist rule China put together its biggest-ever military parade: hundreds of thousands of marchers, batteries of goose-stepping soldiers, and weaponry from drone missiles to amphibious assault vehicles (AP/Vincent Thian). But troubles persist all over China due to human rights abuses. 2. Pro-democracy activists march to China's liaison office during a protest against the 60th anniversary of Chinese National in Hong Kong Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009. The protesters are demanding human rights in China (AP/Kin Cheung). Not only restive Hong Kong, but Tibetans in the south, Uighurs in the west, Nepalese dissidents, Indian exiles, and Burmese refugees along the border highlight just some of the world's largest nation's troubles.

• China marks 60 years of Communist rule (photos)

Burma: Chinese Refugees, Suu Kyi security

Refugees from Kokang, northern Burma, rest at temporary shelter in Nansan, on Chinese border (Reuters).

China's Burmese refugees

BEIJING — Chinese officials imposed an information black-out on Tuesday on the situation along its border with Burma and began taking down tents that had sheltered an estimated 30,000 refugees who fled into China to escape recent fighting between Burma’s military and ethnic rebels.

Suu Kyi to boost security at her house
YANGON, Burma — Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi plans to repair her dilapi-dated two-story home to im-prove security, after an Ameri-can's high-profile intrusion led to her house arrest being ex-tended. Suu Kyi wants to reinforce two balconies on the upper floor, which have only glass doors, and meet with an architect to discuss other renovations, said lawyer Nyan Win: The 64-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate is "very keen to have her house repaired, mainly for security reasons."

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US pressures Burma on refugees

US pressures Myanmar as nervous refugees head home
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NANSAN, China — The United States on Monday urged Burma to cease attacks on ethnic groups as refugees who fled into China after deadly clashes between junta forces and ethnic rebels nervously headed home. Washington stepped in, piling pressure on, after thousands of people poured into China fleeing fighting in the country's remote north west in recent weeks and Beijing complained of attacks on Chinese-owned businesses.

• PHOTOS: Chinese soldier stands guard at the border separating China and Burma; Chinese guards watch Burmese crossing back into Burma (AFP). Burmese child runs past Chinese paramilitary police preparing to clean refugee camp (AP). More photos

"We urge the Burmese authorities to cease their military campaign and to develop a genuine dialogue with the ethnic minority groups, as well as with Burma's democratic opposition," US State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.

"The brutal fighting has forced thousands of civilians to flee their homes for safety in Thailand and China, and has reduced both stability and the prospects for national reconciliation in Burma," he said. Washington was working on a "Burma strategy," he added.

Officials in China's southwestern Yunnan province have said 37,000 refugees streamed into their country after days of fighting in Kokang, a mainly ethnic Chinese region of Burma's Shan state. More>>

Angelina Jolie visits Thai refugees (video)

Jolie visits Thai refugee camp (AP VIDEO)