YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- The United States has made its first shipment of cyclone relief supplies to Myanmar. Officials from the country's military government welcomed the plane upon arrival following prolonged negotiations to persuade Myanmar to accept help. After the...
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Cyclone Nargis affected 2.4 million people and left nearly 140,000 people dead or missing YANGON, 4 September 2008 (IRIN) - The UN is calling on donors to give more generously to an international appeal for victims of...
Humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Burma's Chin State. Early this year, a rare species of bamboo that flowers roughly every half-century produced a bumper harvest of fruit and seed eaten mainly by rats. For several months...
Different walks of life in Myanmar have been holding various activities to raise relief funds for cyclone victims as a charity move. According to this week's issue of the local 7-Day News, vocalists serving in Myanmar's...
Caught between engagement and isolation, Burma, renamed Myanmar by its dictatorial military junta, is in a state of decline. What was once the richest land in South East Asia is now one of the poorest. What was once a...