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• Cyclone Nargis was Asia's 'perfect storm'
BANGKOK, Thailand - It was Asia's answer to Hurricane Katrina. Packing winds upwards of 120 mph, Cyclone Nargis became one of Asia's deadliest storms by hitting land at one of the lowest points in Myanmar and setting off a storm surge that reached 25 ...
• Myanmar seizes U.N. food deliveries
Despite the desperate needs of the survivors, the generals are adamant that only they will distribute the emergency aid that is going in after the worst cyclone to hit Asia since 1991, when 143,000 people were killed in Bangladesh.
• Interpol:  Suspected Asia pedophile held in N.J.
PARIS - An actor who played Santa Claus and painted children's faces was arrested on child sex charges early Thursday after an international manhunt, just the second time Interpol sought the public's help to find a suspected pedophile. Wayne Nelson ...
• Myanmar junta allows first big aid delivery  
It was the biggest U.S. military operation in Southeast Asia since the Vietnam War. With the Irrawaddy delta's roads washed out and the infrastructure in shambles, large swaths of the region are accessible only by air, something few other countries ...
• World’s most on-time airports
International flights can be long and tedious. But if you’re flying to or from Asia, take some comfort in knowing that you’re likely to get there (and take off) on time. In our tallying of the world’s ten most punctual airports, we discovered ...

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