02 Dec 2009 03:57:39 GMT Asean breaks bread with rebellious Myanmar
IT is hard to find anything redeeming about the Myanmar junta after decades of repression and misrule.
The generals of Naypyidaw, which the North Koreans helped build, only have those peers left in the world whose villainy is measured not ...
02 Dec 2009 01:56:28 GMT Asean breaks bread with rebellious Myanmar
IT is hard to find anything redeeming about the Myanmar junta after decades of repression and misrule.
The generals of Naypyidaw, which the North Koreans helped build, only have those peers left in the world whose villainy is measured not ...
30 Nov 2009 09:41:14 GMT Myanmar (Burma): Greater funding needed to meet most critical
needs Merlin - UK Eighteen months after Cyclone Nargis devastated communities in the Irrawaddy Delta, there are critical needs that still haven’t been addressed.
International donors pledged $88 million at an ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) conference in Ba...
26 Nov 2009 14:43:33 GMT MYANMAR: Funding shortfall hits Nargis
survivors A lack of funding is still posing a serious problem for recovery efforts to help the survivors of Cylone Nargis, the UN says, despite fresh pledges from
donors.
25 Nov 2009 17:02:00 GMT No homes in sight for 900,000 Myanmar cyclone survivors BANGKOK - For about 100,000 people in Myanmar who have been living in makeshift shelters since Cyclone Nargis hit 18 months ago, Wednesday's news of fresh donor money spells light at the end of the tunnel.
But for the remaining 900,000 people whose homes were destroyed or damaged, the prospects are dim.
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25 Nov 2009 15:36:00 GMT Myanmar cyclone survivors still need shelter - U.N. BANGKOK, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people are still living in makeshift homes 18 months after Cyclone Nargis tore into Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta, killing at least 140,000, the United ...
25 Nov 2009 14:21:48 GMT MYANMAR: Rats gnaw at cyclone recovery hopes Hla Shwe, 47, had great expectations for his 14ha of paddy fields, which he hoped would help him recover from the
devastation of Cyclone Nargis.
24 Nov 2009 14:39:00 GMT NRC responds to desperate shelter needs Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) NRC continues to respond to the shelter needs in Myanmar. Several hundred thousand people are still in need of sustainable shelter, a year and a half after cyclone Nargis struck.
"NRC has built ...
18 Nov 2009 22:04:03 GMT 50 feared dead in ferry crash ; Myanmar
At least 50 people are feared dead after a packed passenger ferry crashed into an oil barge in an area of Myanmar that was hit by a devastating cyclone last year, officials said yesterday.
18 Nov 2009 08:54:06 GMT A lesson or two on tackling military coup
Colombo, Nov. 17 -- Two generals occupied the headlines here last week. General Sarath Fonseka's resignation and political ambitions naturally made it to the top of discussions everywhere from kitchens to kottu corners.
