ASEAN 'shamed by Burma aid crisis'
                   
news.com.au     May 12, 2008            

ASEAN has again been shamed by its failure to bring member state Burma into line, this time over demands it open its doors to a full-scale cyclone relief effort, critics said today. ... They can definitely do more," said Lim Kit Siang, from the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary... [read full story]                

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