2008 Sichuan earthquake in Beijing on Tuesday. But he added the scale of the disaster was such that "we can't expect that the government can do everything and handle every aspect of the needs". The "Economist" noted that China reacted to the disaster "rapidly and with uncharacteristic openness", contrasting it with Burma's secretive response to Cyclone Nargis, which devastated that country 10 days before the earthquake. On May 16, rescue groups from South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Russia and Taiwan arrived to join the rescue effort. The United States shared some of its satellite images of the quake-stricken areas with Chinese authorities. During the
Nargis New York. Upon her return to India, her condition deteriorated and she was admitted at Breach Candy Hospital in Bombay. Nargis went into coma on 2 May 1981 after she became seriously ill and died the next day. Less than a week after her death, on 7 May 1981, at the premiere of her son's debut film "Rocky", one seat was kept vacant for her. Nargis was buried at Badakabarastan in Marine Lines, Mumbai. A street in Bandra, Mumbai, was renamed Nargis Dutt Road in her memory. One year after her death, The Nargis Dutt Memorial Cancer Foundation (Barshi Maharashtra)