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The cyclone's official death toll has nearly doubled to almost 78,000 and another 56,000 people remain missing two weeks after the devastating storm, state television reported...
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- News Source: Asian Age | 6 months agoIt was nearly double the figure released on Thursday by the military government. The official count for the missing also soared to 55,917, from a figure of 27,838 that had been announced for the past few days. The International Federation of Red
- News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation | 6 months agoBurma's ruling military junta has been criticised internationally for failing to provide aid for people displaced by Cyclone Nargis. Mr Abbott told ABC1's Lateline that there could be a humanitarian obligation to take stronger action. "If the
- News Source: Xinhuanet.com | 6 months agoThe United States said Friday it dispatched four C-130 relief flights to Myanmar and two of the shipments were handed directly to the international NGOs in Myanmar for the first time. "We had four C-130 relief flights that landed in Rangoon today.
- News Source: The New York Times | 6 months agoMyanmar The Bush administration’s calls for Myanmar to throw open its borders to international assistance have gone unheeded, even as the government almost doubled the official death toll to 78,000 on Friday, with 55,917 missing and 19,359 injured,
- News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner | 6 months agoAP Executive Morning Briefing The release of the figures led to dire warnings from the U.N. and renewed calls for the military regime to allow international aid workers access to devastated areas. "More than two weeks after the event, we are at a
- News Source: Gulf News | 6 months ago9 Yangon: Torrential tropical downpours lashed Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on Friday, deepening the misery of an estimated 2.5 million destitute survivors of Cyclone Nargis and further hampering the military government's aid efforts.
- News Source: The New York Times | 6 months agoWhile the death toll in Myanmar continues to climb, international aid agencies are warning of a new kind of threat to the most vulnerable survivors, children. The young suffered disproportionately from the very beginning: relief groups estimate that
- News Source: Leader Post Online | 6 months agoIn the storm-struck town of Kunyangon, around 100 km (60 miles) southwest of Yangon, men, women and children stood in the mud and rain, their hands clasped together in supplication to the occasional passing aid vehicle. "The situation has worsened in
- News Source: United Press International | 6 months agoThe military junta ruling Myanmar claims that more than 90 percent of voters supported a new constitution. Only part of the country, formerly known as Burma, voted in Saturday's referendum. The vote was postponed to May 24 in Yangon and the Irawaddy
- News Source: NewKerala | 6 months agoMyanmar, Mr Ban said there was "sense of great urgency" and that much more needed to be done. "The first few days, even a few more hours, will be crucially important in reaching these needy people with the necessary relief items and humanitarian
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