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Burma: WFP Appeals For Helicopter Funding Aid
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
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To date, only just over half of the $50 million required for the logistical operation has been secured and WFP says that much of this money has already been spent on barges, boats, rivercraft and basic infrastructure needed to reach cyclone survivors...
Tags: myanmar, house arrest, Burma, Irrawaddy Delta, Aung San Suu Kyi, UN World Food Programme, Myanmarï, cyclone survivors, WFP, logistical operations
MYANMAR: Cyclone helicopters grounded in Bangkok
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility One month after a devastating cyclone ripped through Myanmar, nine out of 10 helicopters to be used by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) are still being held up in Bangkok awaiting approval to fly. Choppers were delivered last week by the Canadian and...
Tags: Myanmar, Bangkok, Thailand, aid workers, cyclone survivors, navy ships, relief effort, myanmar area, junta refused, devastating cyclone
Aid groups press Myanmar on camp evictions
Bangkok :: Thailand | about 1 year ago
Credibility 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 made...
Tags: Burma, aid workers, cyclone survivors, Cyclone Nargis, Young Burmese, aid group, international aid, military government
Soaring prices compound Burma's cyclone misery
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: Burma, Myanmar, cyclone nargis, military government, Young Burmese, criminal neglect, cyclone survivors, Khin Mar Htwe, U.S, reopened schools
Myanmar warned against premature resettlement
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility Cyclone victims in Myanmar who leave relief camps may not receive the aid they need, making them even more vulnerable to disease and the elements, a U.N. official said Saturday following reports of forced evictions by the government. Human rights groups...
Tags: Myanmar Geneva, Burma, cyclone survivors, cyclone victims, forcing cyclone
Donors pledge cyclone aid at Myanmar conference
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility Myanmar's storm response appalling The ability to assess the situation will be critical in securing pledges from foreign governments, and the junta's about-face was seen as a concession to get more aid when the potential donor nations meet in Yangon ,...
Tags: house arrest, Myanmar, politics, Burma, Ban Ki-moon, Yangon, generals ban, aid workers, cyclone nargis, cyclone survivors
Myanmar rejects foreign Navy ships delivering aid
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility US, British ships barred as Myanmar votes on referendum Published: May 24, 2008, 08:29 Yangon: Foreign Navy ships delivering aid are still barred in Myanmar, where a constitutional referendum was held on Saturday in the Irrawaddy Delta and Yangon. Junta...
Tags: Myanmar, Irrawaddy Delta, ban ki, cyclone nargis, generals ban, Bangkok International Airport, cyclone survivors, myanmar cyclone
As cyclone refugees wait, Myanmar refuses aid
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility Myanmar's junta kept a French navy ship laden with aid waiting outside its maritime border on Saturday, and showed off neatly laid out state relief camps to diplomats. The stage-managed tour appeared aimed at countering global criticism of the junta's...
Tags: Myanmarï, U.N., Cyclone Nargis, cyclone survivors, relief effort, Michele Montas, Irrawaddy River, general ban, relief camps, Yangon
Myanmar moving cyclone survivors into ghettos
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility Myanmar has moved tens of thousands of homeless cyclone survivors into government-run shelters, pushing them out of monasteries and schools, several Buddhist monks from the disaster zone said on Thursday. They said people were relocated by boats and trucks,...
Tags: Burma, Myanmar, cyclone nargis, aid workers, foreign aid, cyclone survivors
Myanmar Relief Work 'Unacceptably Slow'
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility Ban-Ki-moon on Monday expressed deep concern and urged the Myanmar's ruling junta to accelerate relief aid distribution for those affected by the devastating cyclone. Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar on May 3, has killed nearly 32,000 people and almost...
Tags: Burma, cyclone, relief aid, Myanmar, cyclone survivors, Southeast Asian, Nargis, U.S, Rangoon
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