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BURMA: Civil Society Makes Its Mark in Aftermath of Cyclone Nargis
Bangkok :: Thailand | 8 days ago
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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
INGO Work in Burma Could Stop During Election Period
Yangon :: Myanmar | 9 days ago
Credibility Burma are likely to suspend their activities next May, according to NGO sources in Burma. Rangoon, requesting anonymity. �No written order has yet been made by government ministries, however."...A backlog in granting visas for foreign relief workers has...
Tags: INGO Work, Burma, election period, Myanmar, Yangon, Cyclone Nargis, North Indian Ocean cyclone season, International nongovernmental organization, Politics, Nargis, Non-governmental organization
Associated Press: UN slams Burma over forced labor practices
Geneva :: Switzerland | 11 days ago
Credibility Geneva — The UN labor agency has criticized Burma for failing to abolish forced labor more than a decade after the global body first took up the issue with the Southeast Asian country, officials said Friday. The International Labor Organization adopted...
Tags: Burma UN, Australian, forced labor, Switzerland, Geneva, Year of birth missing, Politics of Burma, Aung Kyi, Human rights in Burma, Politics, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Aung San, State Peace and Development Council, Foreign relations of Burma, Burma Campaign UK, Military dictatorship, Cyclone Nargis, Outline of Burma, ASEAN, Nargis, International Development and Relief Foundation, North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Disaster Accident
C4 Dispatches films win Peck awards
Lagos :: Nigeria | 14 days ago
Credibility Two Channel 4 Dispatches films honoured at Rory Peck awards Orphans of Burma's Cyclone and Saving Africa's Witch Children honoured at awards for freelance cameramen 'A third of Burmese children were malnourished even before the cyclone hit' .....Photograph:...
Tags: Rory Peck, peck awards, Nigeria, Lagos, Shamil Basayev, Reuters, Freelancer, Martin Adler, CNN, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest, Saving Africa's Witch Children, Burma, Nargis, Cyclone Nargis, North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Dispatches
Sanjay Dutt visits mother's birthplace
Kolkata :: India | 7 months ago
Credibility For actor-politician Sanjay Dutt, it was a journey down memory lane on Sunday when he visited the birthplace of his mother Nargis, famous Bollywood actress of yesteryears. "I am infused with fond memories of my mother while visiting her birthplace in...
Tags: Sanjay Dutt, Nargis
Brazil veterans arrive in Myanmar for charity matches
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility The 1994 World Cup star Paulo Sergio was among the 19 players who arrived at Yangon airport, an AFP reporter saw. We are aware of what happened in this country. We are here sacrificing our time and bodies to help, Marcos Grava, the teams manager,...
Tags: Myanmar, Nargis, cyclone nargis
Myanmar to build new schools with steel structure
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Myanmar authorities will build schools with steel structure to replace those in the Yangon municipal area destroyed during a cyclone storm in early May, a local weekly reported Tuesday. A total of 15 schools are covered by the plan of building...
Tags: Yangon City Development Committee, Pyi Myanmar, Myanmar Allows, Nargis, Bago, steel structure, cyclone nargis
Xinhua: Myanmar plans permanent houses for storm victims
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility The project involves some 4,000 permanent houses to be built in Bogalay, Phyapon, Dedaye and Laputta in Ayeyawaddy division...Meanwhile, Myanmar is also reclaiming land plots in the cyclone-hit areas to build up to 100,000 other low-cost provisional housings...
Tags: Myanmar, Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, hit areas, Nargis, cyclone nargis
UN anti-dengue-fever campaign to start in Myanmar
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare Association and the Myanmar Red Cross, the campaign will be introduced in the prioritized townships in Yangon such as Dagon Myothit (North and South) and Hlaingtharya where fresh denge fever has broken out. A recent...
Tags: Yangon, Myanmar Red Cross, Ayeyawaddy, ayeyawaddy division, Nargis, Bago, Laputta
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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