It is now feared that cyclone Nargis may have killed 100,000 people amid mounting anger at the ruling military junta's handling of the crisis.
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9.15am
Seventeen Britons in Burma have failed to make contact since cyclone Nargis struck, the Foreign Office has announced.
Three aid flights are waiting to leave Dubai, Bangladesh and Thailand, but are not being allowed into Burma, the UN World Food Programme said.
9.25am
The UN's children's fund Unicef has posted this update to YouTube:
9.45am
Burma must allow international aid "before it's too late", ASEAN secretary-general, Surin Pitsuwan, told AFP.
Even China, Burma's closest ally, has urged the regime to work with the international community.
10am
A film crew from al-Jazeera reached one of the worst-effected areas, recording eyewitness accounts of the disaster and listening to families furious at the lack of aid.
10.05am
Hospitals in Rangoon are being forced to turn away patients because of a lack of electricity and water, according to a hospital employee quoted by blogger Awzar Thi from the Asian Human Rights Commission.
"The radiotherapy department had to discharge 30 patients because it has no electricity. Because of transport problems patients can't get to the outpatients department," the employee said.
10.15am
Burma's top general, Than Shwe, may have gone into hiding, speculates the Irrawaddy, a website by dissident Burmese in Thailand.
10.25am
The Red Cross has got permission to send in its first aid flight to Burma, according to Deutsche Presse-Agentur, via Relief Web.
10.35am
A UN plane has landed in Burma with relief material for cyclone victims, the organisation told AP.
10.45am
Rumours are spreading that the Burmese authorities are selling international aid to cyclone victims.
10.55am
The failure of the regime to act on cyclone warnings is detailed in a post by Burmese Bloggers without Borders. A forecast in a state-run newspaper last week said the winds would not be damaging.
11am
The story of cyclone Nargis and its aftermath is told in 134 photos (some of which are very disturbing) in this photo gallery by Iun.
11.05am
Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is safe despite the roof of her home, where she is being held under arrest, being blown off, according to a neighbour.
"I saw parts of the roof broken and saw the uprooted tree hit the gate but the army has removed the tree," he told Mizzima.
11.10am
Burma is still blocking US relief flights, according to US ambassador Eric John, AP reports.
11.40am
The state newspaper, the New Light of Myanmar, is reporting a death toll of only 22,980, according blogger Myat Thura. The paper's website hasn't been updated for a week.
11.55am
The death toll could be as high as 600,000, according to an interview with an unnamed government official quoted by blogger Moethee Zun. He says 180,000 were killed in Lutbutta alone. A further 90,000 died in Phyar Pone township, and 80,000 in Bogalay, according to the source.
12.15pm
The international development secretary, Douglas Alexander, has begun to give a statement to the House of Commons about the crisis. "The situation is becoming increasingly perilous," he said. It was vital that aid workers get access, he added and said the UK government was lobbying the Burmese to allow access.
"It is important that the Burmese government accepts all offers of international help offered to it. This is a grave crisis on a scale that has not been seen since the 2004 tsunami," Alexander said.
12.30pm
The British medical relief charity Merlin is converting a river cruiser into floating hospital.
12.45pm
Burmese authorities must give assurances that they won't profiteer from the crisis, says Amnesty International.
Benjamin Zawacki, the human rights organisation's Burma researcher, said: "Government red tape in providing visas is costing lives, while some donors are delaying aid in the fear that it will be siphoned off to the army. The government should now provide access and assurances to international relief workers."
1pm
The UK should send in the navy and back a French bid to force Burma to allow aid in, the Burma Campaign UK has said.
"Every day of delay is costing lives. If the regime won't give permission for aid, the international community must deliver it anyway. We can't stand by and let thousands more die," said its director, Mark Farmaner.
He added: "The government must also send the British Navy off the coast of Burma, ready to deliver aid by helicopter."
1.30pm
There are signs of a "gradual recovery" in Rangoon, according to Aung Hla Tun at Australia's News.com.
The article says sporadic power and water supplies have returned to parts of Rangoon and that food prices are dropping.
2.45am
In this clip posted to YouTube, Al-Jazeera contrasts what it has seen in Burma with the way state TV is reporting the crisis. Listen out for a Burmese newsreader saying: "Foreign correspondents have entered Myanmar illegally and broadcasted fabricated news and incorrect news, very often with the help of anti-government associations".
3pm
An outbreak of cholera has begun, a medical worker has told the Irrawaddy website:
"People have nothing to drink so they drink water from the creeks and rivers. So that is how the outbreak began. These waterways are dirty because they are littered with bodies and animals. The survivors know the water is dirty, but they have no other choice and have had to drink the dirty water. That's how they contracted cholera.
"This is the time for us to stock up on cholera medicine for the possibility of an outbreak in the near future. However, we do not have enough medicine," the unnamed worker said.
3.15pm
A fist fight broke out in Rangoon when locals saw water being delivered to the homes of council members and military officers, according to Awzar Thi's translation of a post from Khitpyaing.
3.35pm
"It's been six days since the cyclone Nargis struck and the situation is getting worse day by day due to the decomposed animals and humans lying around the affected areas. In recent days, we had witnessed the generosity of the world as the humanitarian aid in millions of dollars. But it is very sad to find out that Burmese government is hesitating to grant visas to UN aid workers and NGOs in the name of politics," says blogger Soe Moe.
The post adds: "I was so surprised to see that dead people being dumped into the rivers. It will endanger the people who are living along the river bank with deadly diseases."
4pm
The Disasters Emergency Committee has emailed to say that their teams are beginning to arrive in Burma and have started to distribute aid. But it added that more aid is desperately needed.
4.55pm
The monsoon season, which starts this months and continues into June, could worsen the situation in Burma, the European Union has warned.
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