...cross posted from our sister site, New York City Moms Blog. We just got back from a whirlwind trip to Asia. Why does it seem whenever you leave a place it ends up all over the news? Unfortunately with the Earthquake in China and the Cyclone in Myanmar (Burma) it’s all very sad news. Vietnam...
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by Jason Gutierrez 25 minutes ago SINGAPORE (AFP) - Foreign ministers from Asia and key world powers opened security talks here Thursday amid a simmering border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia and progress on North Korean...
Asia-Pacific powers opened key security talks Thursday focusing on coordinated civilian-military relief operations during disasters after tens of thousands of people died in the Myanmar cyclone and China earthquake in May.
After visiting cyclone-hit areas of Burma’s Irrawaddy delta on Tuesday, John Holmes, the United Nations’ chief humanitarian relief official, said that aid efforts must now shift their focus to more isolated areas. “We must...
A number of Burmese cartoons were censored by the authorities this morning for allegedly violating policy. The cartoons were exhibited for a fund raising drive in an exhibition entitled ‘Wakeup from Storm’ for Cyclone Nargis...