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Myanmar opens to cyclone relief
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
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Away from public view, Myanmar has opened up to global-relief efforts to an unprecedented degree after initially thwarting foreign attempts to help victims of a devastating cyclone last spring, a U.S. relief agency said in a report issued today. The May...
Tags: cyclone, Cyclone Nargis, aid, Thailand
Different walks of life raise relief fund for Myanmar cyclone survivors
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility Thai entrepreneurs investing in Myanmar will hold market festival in Yangon later this month to raise relief funds for the country's cyclone survivors, the local Weekly Eleven News reported Monday. In cooperation with the Thai Embassy, the activity will...
Inside Toronto: Feds match Chinese, Burma aid donations - Mike Adler
Shanghai :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Disasters struck Burma and China this year, wiping out villages in an instant and leaving millions of people homeless. But Canadians and their government responded swiftly, groups from the Chinese and Burmese communities and the Canadian Red Cross said...
Tags: cyclone, aid, Burma, emergency phase
The Straits Times: Face-to-face with victims of Myanmar cyclone – Melissa Sim
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility Myanmar’s cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy delta, handing out supplies and cash directly to the victims of the disaster...The group from the Buddhist Fellowship, led by its president Angie Monksfield, 44, had been warned that Myanmar’s military junta could bar...
Fields left idle in cyclone-hit Myanmar
Labutta :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility Kyaw Thein thought his problems were solved when Myanmar's government delivered seeds, cattle and tillers to his village to help restart rice farming in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. The 53-year-old farmer, whose home was destroyed in the cyclone,...
Tags: cyclone, aid, Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar
UN to halt aid airlifts to cyclone-swamped Myanmar
Bangkok :: Thailand | about 1 year ago
Credibility The United Nations is to stop flying in aid to Myanmar next month, forcing relief agencies to find another way to bring in vital supplies to cyclone survivors, its logistics head told AFP Wednesday. The UN's World Food Programme will stop ferrying aid...
Agriculture in action
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility Photo provided A May 2 cyclone destroyed much of Myanmar, including much of the country’s food supply. Local efforts have helped bring food to the region, and horticulturist Ricky Bates has brought the nutritious moringa tree to the country. Donations...
Parliament: RM3.3m sent to Myanmar
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | about 1 year ago
Credibility A total of US$1mil (RM3.3mil) cash has been sent to the Myanmar Government for the rehabilitation and redevelopment of the country after it was hit by Cyclone Nargis. Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Abd Aziz said Malaysia...
Tags: aid, cyclone, Aman Malaysia, Mercy Malaysia, Royal Malaysia Military, Red Cross Malaysia, Myanmar
MYANMAR: Cyclone assessment reveals critical food, water shortages
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility An estimated 46 percent of families in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady delta have less than two days' worth of food, according to an initial post-disaster assessment. The news underscores the urgent need to bring more food into the region almost eight weeks after...
Tags: cyclone
Myanmar and #x2019;s New Capital Isolates Junta
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility The New York Times Naypyidaw is a nine-hour drive north from Yangon. Myanmar — The bamboo forests and sugar cane fields that once covered the gently sloping hills here have been replaced by hulking government buildings, roads so long and straight they...
Tags: myanmar, cyclone, New Light of Myanmar, Myanmar Convention Centre, aid, China
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