Myanmar declares cyclone mourning period

အိမ္နီးခ်င္းတရုတ္ျပည္က သူ၏ လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ တပတ္က ငလ်င္သင့္ ျပည္သူမ်ားအတြက္
၀မ္းနည္းေၾကာင္း ၃ ရက္ သတ္မွတ္လိုက္ေၾကာင္း သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ျပီးေနာက္ တပ္မေတာ္ကလည္း ျမန္မာျပည္ရွိ မုန္တိုင္းသင့္ျပည္သူမ်ားအတြက္ ၀မ္းနည္းျခင္း ၃ ရက္ လိုက္လံသတ္မွတ္လိုက္ပါသည္။
YANGON - Myanmar's junta appeares to have relented from its position of spurning international assistance, saying it will allow its Asian neighbors to oversee the distribution of foreign relief to survivors of Cyclone Nargis.

It also approved a visit by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and prepared to host a meeting of aid donors, while claiming that losses from the May 2-3 disaster exceeded US$10 billion ($6.4 billion).

Myanmar state television reports that a three-day official period of mourning for the victims of the storm will begin Tuesday.

The official death toll for the May 2-3 storm remains at about 78,000.

Heavy rain fell on the hard-hit low-lying Irrawaddy Delta again Monday, said the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.