While China is receiving adequate help for its Sichuan earthquake from its people and all around the world, I think Myanmar's situation is more worrying.

It has been 15 days since Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar and the junta has insisted that "Myanmar can cope alone and has set up checkpoints to keep foreigners out of the disaster zone". Read today's Straits Times (May17, Saturday) to find out more.

Can the aid and relief reach the people in time? Millions are still waiting. While the cyclone left tens of thousands dead, millions homeless, its government could still "push on with last Saturday's national referendum on a new Constitution". The worst has not come; if the situation continues to be so, there could be an outbreak of disease; even more torturing to its people.

What is the junta thinking? I can't understand.