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The first shipment of U.S. aid has arrived in cyclone-ravaged Burma as the country's ruling military junta begins to open its borders, more than one week after the disaster. ... The U.S. flight, a C-130 cargo plane, left Thailand on Monday and arrived in Yangon -- a...
The first shipment of U.S. aid has arrived in cyclone-ravaged Burma as the country's ruling military junta begins to open its borders, more than one week after the disaster.... ... CTV.ca News Staff The first shipment of U.S. aid has arrived in cyclone-ravaged Burma as...
Britain's Conservative leader calls for direct action in Burma ... Britain’s Conservative Party leader David Cameron believes time is running out for the Burmese people following the devastation of Cyclone Nargis. Mr Cameron, who met with members of the Burmese community...
(AHN) - After a long negotiation with the isolationist military rulers of Myanmar, the first U.S. aid was airlifted to the capital Yangon on Monday after taking off from an airbase in Thailand. The U.S. aid flight came nine days since the devastating cyclone which Myanmar officials say killed...
(AHN) - After a long negotiation with the isolationist military rulers of Myanmar, the first U.S. aid was airlifted to the capital Yangon on Monday after taking off from an airbase in Thailand. The U.S. aid flight came nine days since the devastating cyclone which Myanmar officials say killed...
The international aid agency Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF) says Burmese Authorities are preventing its staff in one of the worst hit parts of the country from providing life saving relief. ... MSF says it has managed to get truckloads of food, relief items and...
WESTERN BUREAU:Burmese expatriates in Jamaica will today stage a peaceful march to show solidarity with their countrymen who were devastated by a cyclone last week and have received negligible aid because of tight controls by the military dictatorship...
Their Majesties the King and the Queen sent 10 tonnes of urgent necessities to cyclone-hit Burma yesterday to.... ... By The Nation Published on May 12, 2008 Their Majesties the King and the Queen sent 10 tonnes of urgent necessities to cyclone-hit Burma yesterday to help...
Burma Allows One U.S. C-130 to Deliver Relief Supplies By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service May 9, 2008 - Burmese officials have given permission for an Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft to deliver supplies to Rangoon on May 12, White House officials said here. Gordon Johndroe, deputy...
Western leaders will be fervently hoping this weekend that the Burmese regime relaxes its restrictions on foreign aid workers entering their country, helping to bring... ... Western leaders will be fervently hoping this weekend that the Burmese regime relaxes its...
It's one week since Cyclone Nargis struck Burma. The once fertile rice paddies of the Irrawaddy Delta are now strewn with thousands of corpses. Despite Burma's UN representative saying the nation would accept aid from any quarter, tonnes of emergency supplies are still not reaching the devastated...
