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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
yclone Nargis has gathered strength, intensifying into a "severe cyclonic storm" that may hit the Bangladesh-Myanmar coast, media reports said on Wednesday. A meteorological officer special bulletin issued here Tuesday said Nargis was lying over west...
Tags: Nargis