New storm head toward cyclone-devstated Myanmar

Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej was to fly into Yangon to try to persuade the junta to grant visas to international disaster experts. On Tuesday night, King Bhumibol Adulyadej warned that hardship would prevail if assistance isn't accepted, though he did not mention Myanmar by name.

Joining other individual and institutional donors around the world, Hollywood stars have donated $250,000 for survivors through Save the Children. The global aid agency said Not On Our Watch, a nonprofit group founded by actors George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and others, has also pledged more donations over a one-year period.

Getting to the worst-affected areas was getting more and more difficult, and the impending storm was expected to compound the misery of the survivors.

"They are already weak," said Pitt, the U.N. spokeswoman. A new storm will impact "people's ability to survive and cope with what happened to them ... this is terrible."

U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had expressed concern that aid was being diverted to non-cyclone victims, but so far there was no evidence.

CARE Australia's country director in Myanmar, Brian Agland, said members of his local staff brought back some of the rotting rice being distributed in the devastated Irrawaddy delta.