Myanmar junta setting up orphanages after cyclone
                   
wtop.com     May 21, 2008            

A group of homeless Myanmar cyclone survivors look on at a monastery, being used as a temporary shelter, on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Myanmar's military junta will set up orphanages for the hundreds of children whose parents died in the recent cyclone, state media... [read full story]                

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