Heavy rain lashes cyclone survivors

Heavy rains pelted homeless cyclone survivors in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta yesterday, complicating the already slow delivery of aid to more than 1.5 million people facing hunger and disease.

An Australian air force plane landed in Yangon, Myanmar's main city, with 31 tons of emergency supplies, a day after the first US military aid flight arrived in the country.

Two more US flights arrived yesterday as part of a "confidence building" effort to encourage Myanmar to allow a larger international relief operation 11 days after the disaster left up to 100,000 dead or missing.