The military junta in Myanmar will let relief workers into the country to help cyclone victims, the U.N. chief said Sunday at a donor's conference in Yangon. U.N.

By Nicole Garrison-Sprenger, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. May 11--REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION -- The man picked to run the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul resigned Saturday amid a report his lobbying firm once represented the controversial Myanmar regime.

Human rights activists said it's important to keep an international spotlight on Myanmar even if the United Nations refuses to punish its military junta.

Text of report in English by Philippine newspaper The Daily Tribune website on 3 October [Report by Michaela P.

Text of report by Latvian newspaper Diena [Commentary by Askolds Rodins: "Junta's Friends"] For approximately a month now, in the south-eastern Asian country of Myanmar (the former Burma), there have been protests in which participants are demanding the restoration of democracy.