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UN urges increased assistance to Myanmar
Yangon :: Myanmar | 8 months ago
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The United Nations on Friday called for increased support to Myanmar's regions that were heavily destroyed by Cyclone Nargis almost a year ago, saying the help provided so far was below the actual needs of the people there. Myanmar is currently facing...
Tags: Myanmar, U.S, cyclone victims, Cyclone Nargis, United States, United Nations, united stated
Cyclone victims protest over unfair reconstruction
Twante :: Myanmar | 8 months ago
Credibility Protestors in Twante Township dispersed at about 5 p.m. (local time), after officials of the Red Cross assured them that they would look into their problems. “The protesters dispersed at about 5 p.m...Now many of us are leaving for our villages,” a protestor...
Tags: cyclone victims, Rangoon
Ne Win's daughter freed in Burma
Yangon :: Myanmar | 12 months ago
Credibility The woman, Sandar Win, was detained with her father in 2002 over an alleged plot to overthrow the government. Her husband and three sons were sentenced to death, although they have not yet been executed...There has been no statement from the Burmese authorities...
Tags: Burma Media Association, Myanmar, house arrested, Sandar Win, Rangoon, cyclone victims, Yangon, U.S, Ne Win, junta released
Myanmar needs building supplies
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility The junta's mouthpiece New Light of Myanmar newspaper said that food supplies were only needed in the immediate aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, and that now the country needed help to rebuild. "It can be seen that most of the aid provided by the international...
Tags: New Light of Myanmar, relief supplies, cyclone victims, Cyclone Nargis, Yangon, cost houses, myanmar cyclone, business material
Doctors invited to provide free medical care to Myanmar's cyclone victims
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility Local doctors are being invited to provide long-term free medical care to victims of deadly cyclone Nargis, official newspaper The New Light of Myanmar reported Saturday. Myanmar Medical Association (MMA) has invited doctors in the country to volunteer...
Tags: Yangon, New Light of Myanmar, free medical, Myanmar Medical Association, provide free, Bago, cyclone victims
New ASEAN after Myanmar cyclone: Secretary-general
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility Myanmar, showing the world that it can "take on the responsibility placed on it", Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan said here Wednesday. "It just so happened that we are being baptized by the Cyclone Nargis...Cyclone Nargis hit the Irrawaddy Delta of Myanmar...
Tags: New Light of Myanmar, Irrawaddy Delta, Cyclone Nargis, foreign aid, FAO, cyclone victims, Surin, helping myanmar
Burma denies forcibly relocating cyclone victims
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility It says storm victims have been given relief supplies so they can return home voluntarily. Amnesty International says thousands of people have been forced from official shelters and given just $US6 and two small portions of rice to return to their ruined...
Tags: All Burma Monks Alliance, Myanmar, Burmese, cyclone victims, cyclone nargis, Thailand, Rangoon, aid group
Burma denies forcibly relocating cyclone victims
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility It says storm victims have been given relief supplies so they can return home voluntarily. Amnesty International says thousands of people have been forced from official shelters and given just $US6 and two small portions of rice to return to their ruined...
Tags: Myanmar, Burma, cyclone nargis, burma denies, storm victims, ruined villages, relief camps, cyclone victims, cyclone relief, denies evictions
Myanmar cyclone tourism sector reels after cyclone
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility When a taxi carrying two Westerners pulled up this past week at the Shwe Sin hotel in Myanmar's cyclone-stricken Irrawaddy delta region, cheers rang out from local residents and workers. The two were congratulated for being the first foreigners to set...
Tags: Myanmar navy, cyclone nargis, Irrawaddy Delta, Bogalay, relief camps, cyclone victims, foreign broadcasts, denies evictions
Myanmar junta slams media over cyclone coverage
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility 0 Yangon: Myanmar's junta attacked "unscrupulous" citizens and foreign media on Friday for presenting a false picture of the devastation left by Cyclone Nargis as experts began mapping the extent of the disaster.
Tags: New Light of Myanmar, Myanmar Junta Begins, Irrawaddy Delta, Burma, U.S, Tropical Cyclone Nargis, cyclone victims, cyclone relief
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