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News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 1 year ago
And even with the American flight — the first of three that the Myanmar government has approved — President George W. Bush said that the slow flow of aid suggested that the generals in charge were either "isolated or callous." "It's been days,...
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News Source: Macleans
| about 1 year ago
A Canadian aid worker in Myanmar is reporting some success in getting aid to storm-ravaged people in that southeast Asian country, but Andrew Kirkwood adds that private business within the country is pitching in too. The Canadian director for Save...
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News Source: NewKerala
| about 1 year ago
Yet they survived and are among the lucky ones in the Irrawaddy river delta region in southern Myanmar, where tropical Cyclone Nargis wreaked the most havoc May 2-3...Many of the traumatised victims haven't eaten for several days. The flood wave...
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News Source: Macleans
| about 1 year ago
Officials distributed aid Tuesday from the first international truck convoy to reach cyclone-battered Myanmar, while the UN chief criticized the country's military leaders for their "unacceptably slow response" to the crisis. Even as some two million...
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News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| about 1 year ago
TWO more US aid flights are due to leave for cyclone-hit Burma today where the military government is keeping most foreign aid workers away from the devastated Irrawaddy delta. Local staff for international relief agencies are stretched to breaking...
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News Source: Al Jazeera
| about 1 year ago
The United Nations has criticised Myanmar's military rulers for their "unacceptably slow response" to helping those affected by Cyclone Nargis...Myanmar's official media says nearly 32,000 people have been killed and 30,000 are still missing but the...
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News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| about 1 year ago
Fast Facts "Today is the 11th day since typhoon Nargis hit Myanmar. I want to register my deep concern and immense frustration on the unacceptably slow response to this grave humanitarian crisis," Ban told a news conference. "I emphasize that this is...
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News Source: CCTV
| about 1 year ago
The death toll of Myanmar's cyclone disaster kept rising with 3,480 more people killed, bringing the total to 31,938, according to a news report of the state radio Monday evening. Altogether 29,770 people remained missing, down from 33,416, the...
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News Source: Kuwait Times
| about 1 year ago
The first US military aid flight landed in Myanmar yesterday, 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-era U-Tapao...
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News Source: The Courier-Mail
| about 1 year ago
In his most critical comments on Burma's military government to date, Mr Ban said that despite repeated attempts to contact the junta's senior general, Than Shwe, he had been unable to speak with him and had sent him a letter. "We are at a critical...