US delegation gets cool reception over offer of help for Burma
                   
guardian.co.uk: Cyclone survivors reach out for food aid in Rangoon. The UN said it was delivering only a fraction of the emergency rations needed guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk     May 13, 2008            

Military team leaves empty-handed after regime refuses to give firm commitment about aid ... Cyclone survivors reach out for food aid in Rangoon. The UN said it was delivering only a fraction of the emergency rations needed. Photograph: AFP/Getty The most senior US aid... [read full story]                    


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MYANMAR: Government cuts currency red tape for donors

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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...                    

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Burma famine (by Ian Holliday)

typepad.com     7 hrs ago          

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...                    

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Different walks of life in Myanmar hold activities in cyclone relief fund raising

people.com.cn     12 hrs ago   2 related          

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...                    

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Times of India: Time for a revision - Baladas Ghoshal and Ian Holliday

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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...                    

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