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Soaring prices compound Burma's cyclone misery

Source: News 24

Yangon : Myanmar | about 1 year ago

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A large "Happy World" sign hangs above a dilapidated food market in Rangoon, Burma, but on the streets shoppers are far from content. A month after Cyclone Nargis scythed a path of destruction through Burma's former capital and Irrawaddy Delta, leaving 134 000 dead or missing, those spared by the storm...

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