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Official death toll remains at nearly 23,000 but is expected to rise as UN agencies say as many as 1.5 million people were severely affected by Cyclone Nargis ... Ramirez report - Listen (MP3) Burma's military government is turning away relief workers as an estimated...
by Staff Writers London (AFP) May 15, 2008 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Downing Street office clarified comments he made earlier Thursday that the United Nations was organising an emergency summit on the Myanmar cyclone disaster. A Downing Street spokeswoman told AFP that Brown was...
BANGKOK, May 16 (Reuters) - Some cholera has been confirmed among survivors of Cyclone Nargis, but the number was in line with case levels in previous years in Myanmar, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. "We do have some confirmed cholera," Maureen Birmingham, acting WHO...
By Prashant K. Nanda. Delhi, India, 11:01 AM IST Twenty-one of the 23 most devastating cyclones worldwide during the last 200 years occurred in the northern Indian Ocean zone popularly know as the Indian region. 'Though the Indian region faces only five to six percent of the total number of...
CHILDREN from the Ti-Ratana Welfare Society in Kuala Lumpur played their part to help victims of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar by chipping in to the The Star Myanmar Relief Fund. The children accompanied the society’s founder and adviser chief high priest Venerable K. Sri Dhammaratana to hand over a...
