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In today's report on the disastrous cyclone that swept through the small Asian country of Myanmar (formerly Burma) it looks like ABC News is trying to start a new meme: The cyclone "was Asia's answer to Hurricane Katrina." How long do you think it will be before the idea takes hold and all manner...
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How generals turned their backs on disaster
Junta insists citizens, many of whom are in mourning and threatened by disease, go to the ballot box ... The Junta's generals are insisting their citizens, many of whom are in mourning and who are threatened by disease, go to the ballot box. Even as incoming aid was being...
Myanmar Regime Exports Rice As Cyclone Victims Suffer
While Myanmar's military regime Friday restricted the rush of international aid offered to help hungry and homeless cyclone survivors, the government was exporting tons of rice through its main port. Four of the five berths at the port of Thilawa for oceangoing container vessels were empty, but a...
ABC Calls Myanmar Cyclone ‘Asia’s Katrina’
-By Warner Todd Huston In today's report on the disastrous cyclone that swept through the small Asian country of Myanmar (formerly Burma) it looks like ABC News is trying to start a new meme: The cyclone "was Asia's answer to Hurricane Katrina." How long do you think it will be before ...
Race to prevent disease among Myanmar cyclone victims
Preventing a disease disaster in Myanmar is now a "race against time," as many impoverished victims still await help a week after the brutal cyclone, experts warned Saturday. ... The World Health Organization has reported children suffering from upper respiratory...
ABC Calls Myanmar Cyclone 'Asia's Katrina'
-By Warner Todd Huston ... How long do you think it will be before the idea takes hold and all manner of comparisons will be made between Katrina and the cyclone in Myanmar? If this idea takes hold it won't be long before the media's Bush Derangement Syndrome starts...
Stifled by regime, Myanmar cyclone victims suffer in silence
Apart from the sound of children crying, the town of Labutta is strangely silent. ... Traumatized by the ordeal of surviving Cyclone Nargis, few people have anything to say. But it is also fear bred by 46 years of repression by military regimes that keeps them quiet....
ABC Calls Myanmar Cyclone 'Asia's Katrina'
In today's report on the disastrous cyclone that swept through the small Asian country of Myanmar (formerly Burma) it looks like ABC News is trying to start a new meme: The cyclone "was Asia's answer to Hurricane Katrina." How long do you think it will be before the idea takes hold and all manner...
Cyclone Nargis
CYCLONE NARGIS....Wingers sure are weird. The Wonk Room documents how one of Brent Bozell's media watchdog groups spliced together an NPR interview with Al Gore to make it sound like he was blaming the recent devastating cyclone in Burma on... ... ....Wingers sure are...
Associated Press: Preventing disease outbreaks is ‘race against time’ for cyclone victims in Myanmar
Getting supplies to survivors suffering from a brutal cyclone in Myanmar is now a “race against time” to prevent a disease disaster as some impoverished victims continue to wait for help a week after the storm, experts warned Saturday. Reports of diarrhea, malaria and skin problems have already...
ANALYSIS: Myanmar set for political, economic shocks
Military-ruled Myanmar, among the globe's poorest and most authoritarian nations, is reeling from a natural disaster of such magnitude that both the people's suffering and political aftershocks are certain to persist long after the last emergency aid has been doled out.
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Environment, Environmental Organizations, U.S. Government, U.S. Governmental Agencies, Intergovernmental Organizations, International Relations, Government, Climate Change, Natural Disasters, Disasters, Accidents & Crises, Global Warming, Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, Storms, United Nations, World Meteorological Organization, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, Myanmar
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