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The troops have arrived at last, but where
Chiang Mai :: Thailand | about 1 year ago
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Instead of aid, they bring only fear and oppression to the survivors. In contrast with the impressive way neighboring China responded to the disastrous earthquake there, Burmese troops reacted to their own country’s disaster sluggishly and coldheartedly.
Myanmar Diverts French Warship Carrying Aid
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility Myanmar's foreign and defense ministries said in a statement late Sunday that the French military vessel, the Mistral, had been diverted to Thailand to hand on its cargo to the World Food Program for distribution after the Burmese authorities refused...
Tags: Myanmar, Burma, Thailand, cyclone, aid, house arrest, Irrawaddy Delta
The ‘angels’ of Myanmar
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Myanmar Cyclone Nargis victims thought angels had arrived when Kaythi Hnin Ebrahim and her five nephews and nieces, doctors and volunteer friends appeared at their doorstep in a mobile clinic. The victims had been suffering from fractures, infections...
Tags: myanmar, cyclone, aid, Myanmar Cyclone Nargis
Cautious response to Burma pledge
Brussels :: Belgium | about 1 year ago
Credibility The UN's World Food Programme said the real test was whether its workers would be allowed to leave Rangoon for the devastated southern Irrawaddy Delta. About 78,000 people died and 56,000 are missing after the 2 May cyclone. Meanwhile, the polls have...
Thailand Limits Myanmar Cyclone Relief
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility Myanmar, members' respective bilateral policies towards the military regime promise to complicate and potentially undermine a collective and coherent group response. Nowhere is that more clear than with Thailand, which has long maintained strong commercial...
Tags: Thailand, Myanmar, Cyclone, aid workers, ET Burma, Gen Than Shwe, Ban Ki-moon, general ban, foreign aid, Mr Ban, senior general, senior gen
Myanmar children at risk: UNICEF, relief agencies warn
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility Children At risk of disease, abuse and forced recruitment into the armed forces, children are the most vulnerable survivors of the cyclone that hit Myanmar, many of them orphaned or lost, fending for themselves. As huge rainstorms drench the often-homeless...
Myanmar death toll soars
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility Diplomats witnessed "huge" devastation in the Irrawaddy delta on Saturday and the toll of dead and missing from the cyclone rose above 133,000 people, making it one of the most damaging to hit Asia. With about 2.5 million people clinging to survival in...
Myanmar Cyclone Casualties Nearly 78,000
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility The cyclone's official death toll has nearly doubled to almost 78,000 and another 56,000 people remain missing two weeks after the devastating storm, state television reported Friday.
Tags: Myanmar, Burma, cyclone, Press Burma, Cyclone Nargis, deaths toll, international aid
Stories of survival emerge from Myanmar
Bogale :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility The world is growing accustomed to seeing images of devastation, from earthquakes or calamitous storms, as they unfold...When the surging water ripped apart his house, he and his family scrambled onto their small boat in a futile attempt to outrun the...
Traffickers target child cyclone survivors
Bangkok :: Thailand | about 1 year ago
Credibility Burma's catastrophic cyclone and two suspects have already been arrested, the United Nations has reported...The official death toll from Cyclone Nargis has risen to 34,273, with 27,836 people missing, state radio said today. Ms Dufay said children who...
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