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News Source: The Frontier Post
| about 1 year ago
Almost 4,000 people were killed and nearly 3,000 others are unaccounted for after a devastating cyclone in Myanmar, a state radio station said Monday. Foreign Minister Nyan Win told foreign diplomats at a briefing that the death toll could reach 10,...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| about 1 year ago
The U.S. military C-130 cargo plane filled with 14 tons of water, mosquito nets and blankets was unloaded in Yangon, providing what officials said was help for some 30,000 victims of the May 3 disaster. It was immediately transferred to Myanmar army...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
UN humanitarian chief John Holmes said Monday that more visas are being granted to international relief workers to get into Myanmar to help victims of cyclone Nargis, but still more are needed. Speaking at a press conference at the UN Headquarters in...
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News Source: Moscow Times
| about 1 year ago
The first U.S. military aid flight to Myanmar landed in Yangon on Monday but emergency supplies remained at a trickle for 1.5 million people facing hunger and disease in the cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy delta. The C-130 military transport plane left...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday voiced frustration at the slow pace of relief efforts in the wake of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, calling for accelerated efforts to get more aid into the country. "I want to register my deep concern --...
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News Source: The Boston Globe
| about 1 year ago
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized Myanmar's military junta Monday for what he called its "unacceptably slow response" to helping cyclone victims...Security Council's five veto-wielding members -- France, Britain and the United States -- remain...
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News Source: Japan Times
| about 1 year ago
A country that was once Southeast Asia's richest and most promising has steadily deteriorated. It is now a corrupt military-run tyranny, an economic basket case and an international pariah. The man-made disaster in Myanmar was horribly compounded...
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News Source: Gulf News
| about 1 year ago
4 Washington: The United States expects to send two more flights into Myanmar and offer $13 million (Dh47.75 million) in aid to UN agencies, the White House said on Monday after the first US military flight reached the cyclone-ravaged country. "We...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| about 1 year ago
IST(13/5/2008) The first US military aid flight landed in Myanmar on Monday, but relief supplies continued to just dribble into the reclusive state nine days after a devastating cyclone. A C-130 military transport plane left Thailand’s Vietnam War-...
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News Source: The Daily Star
| about 1 year ago
The junta leaders have done little to facilitate recovery efforts in the wake of the disaster. Indeed, they conducted a national referendum on Saturday to approve a new constitution, which they hope will entrench their power for decades to come.