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Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
BBC News has posted an online gallery of crayon drawings by children who survived Cyclone Nargis , which devastated Burma last May, killing about 130,000 people and leaving many thousands more homeless. Burma's military junta heeded its own paranoia, rather than the plight of its people, and rejected outside help. Only foreign agencies already in Burma managed to bring aid to survivors in the...
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Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Mark Pearson's images and films provide the first detailed snapshot of Burma in the aftermath of cyclone Nargis. Jonathan Miller reports.
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
New funding from the UK’s Department of International Development (DFID) and the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) will allow IOM’s emergency response to Cyclone Nargis, which stru...
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i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
The United Nations has acknowledged that over the past three months some 1.56 million dollars in aid for the victims of Cyclone Nargis has been lost because of Myanmar's foreign exchange regulations. "The loss in value due to foreign exchange for the Cyclone Nargis international humanitarian aid during the last three months has been about 1.56 million dollars," said Daniel Baker, UN Humanitarian...
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Relief Web (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
The New Yorker, Aug. 25An article on Burma puts traces the cycles of oppression and uprising since the country came under the control of a military junta in 1962, giving historical perspective to last September's monk riots and this spring's devastation by Cyclone Nargis. Recently, "millions of Burmese have responded to the country's seemingly incurably condition by fleeing." Those who remain...
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Rangoon - Organizers of a charity music concert to raise funds for victims of Cyclone Nargis, where Burma's premier rock band Iron Cross will perform, said tickets for the show will be printed on blan...
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Inspiration Korner (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
When cyclone Nargis struck in early May, the forgotten country of Myanmar was thrust into the world’s media spotlight. The images of destruction and desolation which filled our TV screens are not easily forgotten. But there is a story which never hit the headlines. A story of suffering, injustice and persecution. It’s the story of Myanmar’s tribal Christians. Pastor Henry is one of them. A courageous...
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Asia Times (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Myanmar's military junta, which wants more overseas funds to rebuild the country after the devastation of Cyclone Nargis, is profiting from a dual exchange rate that may have cost the United Nations as much as US$10 million in losses. - Brian McCartan
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... Lawi Mon.Some local observers suggested that the steady influx was due to the impact of Cyclone Nargis, which slammed into Burma’s largely agricultural Irrawaddy delta on May 2-3, destroying cropland and leaving many farmers without any means of making a living.“Normally, very few people come to Thailand during the rainy season,” said Nai Lawi Mon. “But this year we are seeing more and more...
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
The United Nations and Myanmar have resolved a problem with distorted official exchange rates that led to U.N. losses of more than $1.5 million in the delivery of aid to survivors of Cyclone Nargis. U...
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
In the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, which ravaged much of southern Myanmar on 2 and 3 May 2008, many paddy farmers, such as these outside Labutta, have given up farming and opted for fishing instead
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... the demonstrators’ arrests and the price of consumer goods continued to increase since Cyclone Nargis hit Burma in May, according to housewives and merchants.Before his arrest, Hla Myo Naung said there would continue to be unrest for as long as people continued to experience difficulties in their daily lives.“Consider the root cause of this disease. Consider the ways to prevent this disease...
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the UN on 21 July, over 84,000 people lost their lives when Cyclone Nargis struck on 2-3 May, with close to another 54,000 people still missing.Photo: Thousands of children lost in the cyclone will likely never be found nowOver 300 people in the village of Kokko, close to the Pya Ma Law river where Soe Naing lived, lost their lives, while scores more went missing....
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
... families have been reunited, say aid workers who asked not to be identified. According to the Post-Nargis Joint Assessment (PONJA) report [see: http://www.asean.org/21765.pdf] released by the Myanmar government, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the UN on 21 July, over 84,000 people lost their lives when Cyclone Nargis struck on 2-3 May, with close to another...
