Minister of Social Welfare, Relief, and Resettlement MAUNG Maung swe of Burma

Maj Gen Maung Maung Swe said Myanmar had a population of 56.

The city of Bogalay, in the heart of the delta, suffered the brunt of the storm’s fury with 10,000 people killed and 95 percent of homes there destroyed, the minister for social welfare Maung Maung Swe said yesterday.

But last night, Social Welfare Minister Maung Maung Swe said foreign aid teams wanting to enter the country to help with the relief effort would have to negotiate with the regime to be granted access.

Maung Maung Swe said most of the victims had died in a 3.