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Australia has responded to an urgent call for support from the World Food Program (WFP) with $5 million for people suffering due to conflict in northwest Pakistan. More than one million people remain displaced by fighting between militants and government...
Tags: Australia, Pakistan, Peshawar, Internally displaced person, World Food Programme, Taliban, War in North-West Pakistan, Waziristan, Cyclone Nargis, North Indian Ocean cyclone season, War Conflict, Politics
Two Channel 4 Dispatches films honoured at Rory Peck awards Orphans of Burma's Cyclone and Saving Africa's Witch Children honoured at awards for freelance cameramen 'A third of Burmese children were malnourished even before the cyclone hit' .....Photograph:...
Tags: Rory Peck, peck awards, Nigeria, Lagos, Shamil Basayev, Reuters, Freelancer, Martin Adler, CNN, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest, Saving Africa's Witch Children, Burma, Nargis, Cyclone Nargis, North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Dispatches
Burma is to double its output of natural gas in the next 10 years, the country’s sole operator of oil and gas production told a regional trade fair in Bangkok yesterday. Energy experts believe Burma’s offshore Bay of Bengal gas fields could house Southeast...
Tags: Burma, Peru, Ascope, Cyclone Nargis, Politics of Burma, Burmese diaspora, Economy of Burma, Myanma kyat, Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, Sino¬タモBurma pipelines, Business Finance, Politics, Military dictatorship, Than Shwe
The information center, set up at the Kyogone Forestry Directorate in Insein Township, will provide update news about global warming, climate change and the country's weather condition for government departments, researchers, environmental conservation...
Tags: Myanmar, Yangon, Insein Township, Cyclone Nargis, Burma, Disaster Accident, Environment, UNICEF Ireland, Entertainment Culture, UNICEF, David Beckham, UNICEF UK, Human Interest
Burma and call for the release of all political prisoners, including the democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as for an inclusive political process ahead of the 2010 elections...Thein Sein to free Suu Kyi and other political prisoners while in Singapore,...
Tags: Burma, U.S, China, Shanghai, Shi Tao, Liu Xiaobo, Human rights in the People's Republic of China, ASEAN, Aung San Suu Kyi, Barack Obama, Huang Qi, Aung San, State Peace and Development Council, Cyclone Nargis, International reaction to the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests, Burmese anti-government protests, Politics, Politics of Burma, John Yettaw, Than Shwe, National League for Democracy
Complaints of forced labour in Burma have risen by nearly 50 percent in the past five months, with more than half of these stemming from the recruitment of youths into the army. The statistics, published in a report by the International Labour Organisation...
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The volatile Shan state in northeastern Burma is the country’s largest state and home to an estimated six million people. Low-intensity conflict has eaten away at the region for more than half a century as armed ethnic groups fight for autonomy against...
Tags: Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi, Sri Lanka, Burmese, Colombo, Aung San, Burmese general election, Burma Campaign UK, Politics of Burma, Shan Herald News Agency, Panglong Conference, War Conflict, Shan, Kokang, Politics, Than Shwe, Cyclone Nargis, Human Rights Defenders and Promoters, Human rights in Burma, Social Issues, Mahinda Rajapaksa, U Ottama, Sri Lankan people, Sinhalese people
Myanmar— Searchers have recovered more bodies from a ferry accident in Myanmar, bringing the confirmed death toll to 31, with about a dozen people still unaccounted for. An official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to...
Tags: Myanmar, Ngawun River, Pathein, Burma, ferry crashed, feared dead, myanmar ferry, oil barge, Yangon, Disaster Accident, Irrawaddy Delta, Cyclone Nargis, Geography of Burma, Ayeyarwady Division, Ayeyarwady River
As Cyclone Nargis swept away her home, family and friends in Aung Chan Thar village in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady River Delta, she clung to its sturdy trunk. "As the water came up, I had to climb higher," she said. The storm surge that accompanied Nargis was...
Tags: Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar, Yangon
Education Sector Urgently Needs Funding Boost, Says UN New York, Jun 10 2009 2:10PM Greater support for the educational sector in Myanmar is an urgent priority, a senior United Nations relief official said at a donors meeting, calling for more resources...
Tags: Myanmar, Cyclone Nargis, education sector