Myanmar concedes to access ahead of donor meeting

The U.N. secretary-general flew to Myanmar on Sunday to steer a 50-nation conference that will pledge funds for survivors of Cyclone Nargis after the country's military junta promised to open its doors to critically needed foreign help.

Three weeks after the cyclone struck, frustrated foreign aid workers were ratcheting up preparations to finally go into the Irrawaddy delta with food, drinking water, medicine and other relief.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who had wrested the open door agreement from the ruling generals, was flying early Sunday to Yangon from Bangkok, Thailand, to attend the conference of some 50 countries along with U.N. and …