News Source: Canada.com
| about 1 year ago
It's business as usual," said one official at an aid agency in Yangon, who asked not to be named. Cumbersome regulations were blocking more vehicles and boats being used to distribute vital aid and even access to satellite communications was being...
News Source: Myanmar News
| about 1 year ago
This comes after international aid workers had said that cyclone survivors who had taken refuge in shelters were being driven out of towns by the local authorities and dumped in rural areas with no aid or supplies. Sources said it was apparent the...
News Source: Myanmar News
| about 1 year ago
More than one million people still don't have adequate food, water or shelter a month after a devastating cyclone swept through Myanmar, and it's not clear what the military junta is doing to help them, the United Nations said Tuesday. Humanitarian...
News Source: Myanmar News
| about 1 year ago
Thai government spokesperson Police Maj-Gen Wichianchot Sukchotrat said on Monday that the Office of the Prime Minister had temporarily closed the donation center�which was collecting money and supplies for victims of Cyclone Nargis in Burma and...
News Source: News 24
| about 1 year ago
Foreign aid groups pressed Burma on Tuesday to stop closing cyclone relief camps as international experts kicked off a mission to pin down the scale of the devastation a month after the storm. Cyclone Nargis, the world's most deadly natural disaster...
News Source: The Courier-Mail
| about 1 year ago
UN helicopters able to ferry aid to remote cyclone victims should enter Burma this week, officials said today, but it was unclear when they will be allowed to fly to the worst-hit areas. The UN's World Food Program received permission about two weeks...