Top UN Official in Asia-Pacific Joins Call for Urgent Access to Myanmar
                   
newsblaze.com     May 9, 2008            

The agency is also emptying its stockpile in north-western Thailand to deliver some 5,000 plastic sheets and some 200 tents to people in desperate need of shelter across the border. ... The storm left a path of death and destruction across the Irrawaddy delta region and... [read full story]                

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UN says as much as 25 percent of cyclone aid lost to Myanmar currency controls

bostonherald.com     11 hrs ago   29 related          

By Associated Press Friday, July 25, 2008 - Added 7m ago BANGKOK, Thailand - As much as 25 percent of cyclone relief aid in Myanmar is being lost because of the military government’s foreign exchange system, a United Nations...                

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International aid for Burma (Myanmar) faces funding crunch

csmonitor.com     14 hrs ago   13 related          

About $1 billion is needed over three years, according to a new assessment. International efforts to help millions of people in Burma (Myanmar) left homeless and destitute by a lethal May cyclone are running low on funds,...                

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The situation in Myanmar remains dire: WFP

un.org     15 hrs ago   3 related          

The UN food agency (WFP) warns that hundreds of thousands of families in Myanmar still have a lengthy storm to weather 12 weeks after Cyclone Nargis devastated the Ayeyarwady Delta region. The World Food Programme says a...                

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Mia Farrow slams Myanmar post-cyclone rights record (AFP)

yahoo.com     18 hrs ago   28 related          

BANGKOK (AFP) - Actress Mia Farrow Friday joined other prominent women activists to slam Myanmar's ruling junta on its human rights record in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. The US actress-turned-activist spoke to reporters as...                

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