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Isle medical team tends to hundreds
Sagaing :: Myanmar | 5 days ago
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An Aloha Medical Mission team of 17 volunteer doctors and nurses performed nearly 60 surgeries and treated more than 300 patients during a recent two-week mission to Myanmar. Among them was an 11-year-old girl with a large eyelid tumor that invaded her...
Tags: Dr. Michael Healy, Myanmar, Aloha Medical Mission, buddhists monastery, Irrawaddy Delta, Paula Helfrich, Sitagu Hospital, Honolulu Medical Group, Sagaing, International School in Yangon, Health Medical Pharma, Cyclone Nargis, North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Sayadaw, Burma, Mandalay, Yangon, Michael Healy
BURMA: Civil Society Makes Its Mark in Aftermath of Cyclone Nargis
Bangkok :: Thailand | 10 days ago
Credibility Eighteen months after the powerful Cyclone Nargis tore through military-ruled Burma, one question that dogged early relief efforts has lost relevance: does the country have an active civil society to help victims? The amorphous network of Burmese civilians,...
Tags: Cyclone Nargis, United Nations, nargis survivors, Myanmar, Thailand, Bangkok, Irrawaddy Delta, Burma, North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Nargis, ASEAN, Disaster Accident, Burma Global Action Network, Politics of Burma, Medical Emergency Relief International, Burmese media, IRIN, Mizzima News, Noeleen Heyzer, Bogale, Surin Pitsuwan, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
MYANMAR: Rats gnaw at cyclone recovery hopes
Bogale :: Myanmar | 10 days ago
Credibility In the past three months, more than 2.5 million rats have been exterminated in the Ayeyarwady Delta by the Myanmar Agriculture Service, with support from the FAO and other community, NGO and UN partners, the FAO says. Culling rodents Despite the culling...
Tags: FAO, Shin Imai, Myanmar, Bogale, Environment, Agriculture, Rice, Tropical agriculture, Paddy field, Irrawaddy Delta, Labutta, Crops
Death toll passes 30 in Myanmar ferry sinking
Yangon :: Myanmar | 19 days ago
Credibility 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
Al Jazeera: Revisiting the Irrawaddy delta – Kathleen McCaul
Yangon :: Myanmar | 7 months ago
Credibility Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar’s southern Irrawaddy delta in May 2008, leaving at least 138,000 people dead and destroying homes and farmland. A year on, Myanmar’s military rulers have ignored the anniversary of the event, but aid agencies continue...
Tags: Irrawaddy, irrawaddy delta
Video footage - one year after Cyclone Nargis
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
Credibility Watch videos of courageous survivors speaking of their experiences to Mizzima’s correspondent, who visited the Irrawaddy delta on the anniversary of the deadly cyclone. A year after Cyclone Nargis devastated Burma’s Irrawaddy delta, survivors are still...
Tags: Burma, Cyclone Nargis Volunteers, Irrawaddy, irrawaddy delta
A year later, Myanmar remembers Cyclone Nargis
Yangon :: Myanmar | 7 months ago
Credibility Without hundreds of millions of dollars more in assistance, many victims of last year's cyclone in Myanmar will not have the money to rebuild their homes or replant their flood fields in the country's Irrawaddy delta, the British charity Oxfam said. (AP...
Tags: Burma, Myanmar, Irrawaddy Delta, Cyclone Nargis
Myanmar cyclone victims still need shelter, jobs
Yangon :: Myanmar | 7 months ago
Credibility Hundreds of thousands of people are still without decent jobs and housing a year after Cyclone Nargis ripped through Myanmar, leaving many vulnerable to the coming monsoon rains and mired in a life of poverty, humanitarian groups said Thursday.
Tags: Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar, Burma, Irrawaddy Delta, Burmese
Cyclone survivors left to their own devices
Yangon :: Myanmar | 7 months ago
Credibility Postcard from the Irrawaddy Delta’ (Commentary) Travelling from Rangoon and in the south west direction, less than two hours by car is necessary to realize the extent of damage caused by Cyclone Nargis where more than 138,000 were killed or missing, one...
Tags: Cyclone Nargis, Irrawaddy Delta
Myanmar villagers still struggle year after storm
Yangon :: Myanmar | 7 months ago
Credibility Nature has concealed the scars in this tangle of narrow waterways in the Irrawaddy Delta, where most of the more than 138,000 victims drowned when the storm roared through during the night last May 2. But behind the lush growth, tens of thousands of survivors...
Tags: Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar, Irrawaddy River Delta, Irrawaddy Delta, Burma
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