Pic 16: Residents in Yangon wait in line to buy cooking oil. Many businesses are exploiting shortages caused by damaged roads and ports, charging exorbitant prices for gasoline, building supplies and other items in high demand.
Pic 15: Refugees live in a temple for the shelter in Laputta town, Irrawaddy Delta.
Pic 14: A boy feeds a banana to his younger brother at a temple being used a temporary shelter on the outskirts of Yangon.
Pic 13: Children survivors of Cyclone Nargis cover their heads from the rain with empty aluminium plates as they wait for food at a private donation center in Myanmar.
Pic 12: A young survivor waits for relief supplies by a makeshift house in Bogalay
Pic 11: An elderly woman comes out of her destroyed house in the cyclone-hit Dedaye township, south of Yangon.
Pic 10: Families sort through their destroyed houses in Konegyangone township, looking for possessions.
Pic 9: Children beg for food from passengers in a passing car Thursday in Bogalay. More than a million survivors of the cyclone are battling to stave off hunger and disease.
Pic 8: In this picture made available Friday, injured villagers mill around their destroyed homes Saturday in Bogalay township, one of the regions of Myanmar hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis.
Pic7: Rice farmer U Maung Saw, 58, is rebuilding his own home from scratch and trying to salvage hundreds of pounds of unmilled rice soaked by the cyclone, before it rots. He says his village, Kyaiktaw, has received no aid at all. “The government never gives us anything,” he says. “We’re not angry. We’re not surprised. We don’t expect anything else.”
Pic6: A woman comforts her child at a relief center after fleeing Kyauktan, about 40 miles southeast of Yangon, Myanmar's main city. Tropical Cyclone Nargis, which slammed into the rice-growing Irrawaddy River delta region in the country's south, may be followed by another storm: A tropical depression is building over the Andaman Sea as survivors of the first storm await aid. The government raised the official toll to 29,000.
Pic5: Young monks wash themselves in the river in Pyapon, a town in the Irrawaddy delta of Myanmar on Sunday. A a week after Nargis hit, few areas have seen proper relief efforts, with the government handing out meager rice rations while preventing foreign aid workers from entering.
Pic4: Villagers rest on the outskirts of hard-hit Bogalay town in southern Myanmar. A Red Cross boat carrying relief supplies sank, and aid groups warned that up to 1.5 million people are in desperate need of clean water and sanitation.
Pic3: Myanmar villagers receive treatment from a local non-governmental organization at the Paw Taw Mu pagoda on the outskirts of Bogalay town in the country's devasted southern delta region Sunday. The government has been missing in action.
Pic2: A boy carries away material scavenged from the debris of cyclone-ravaged houses in Kyauktan, about 40 miles southeast of Myanmar's main city, Yangon, also known as Rangoon.
Pic1: A fallen tree trunk rests near a cluster of buildings on the outskirts of Yangon in southern Myanmar. Some villagers criticized the military regime. “They are very selfish,” said a man in Kyaiktaw. “They don’t care what happens to others. They only think about themselves.”
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