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2.5 million cling to survival two weeks after Nargis struck Myanmar Khin Maung Win / AFP - Getty Images Children displaced by the cyclone take care of a flooded area at a relief camp in Hlayang Thyar township on the outskirts of Yangon on Friday. Torrential tropical downpours lashed Myanmar's...
YANGON - Torrential tropical downpours lashed Myanmar's cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta on Friday as state television said cyclone death toll has reached almost 78,000, with another 56,000 people missing. Given Myanmar's ban on foreign journalists and restrictions on movement for most international...
Migration and climate change will top the agenda of the 5th Latin American, Caribbean and European Union summit that kicks off here Friday. It is not possible to talk about fight against poverty and social cohesion without talking about the immigrants problem, EU Commissioner for External...
Preparation Agriculture/Fisheries Council of May 2008 The Agriculture & Fisheries Council will meet in Brussels on Monday 19 May (starting at 11 a.m.), under the Presidency of Mr Iztok Jarc, Slovenian Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Food. Commissioners Mariann Fischer Boel and Androulla...
NEW: Embassy official: A total of 436,000 homes destroyed or heavily damaged NEW: Official death toll now at 22,069, although officials warn it could top 50,000 5.5-magnitude quake hits eastern Sichuan, triggers landslides, blocks roads Chinese President Hu Jintao in Sichuan to press rescue...
A man stands among wreckage of a rice mill YANGON (AFP) - The European Union's aid chief said Friday he had made no breakthroughs on a trip to Myanmar aimed at pushing the ruling generals to open up to foreign assistance, two weeks after the cyclone tragedy. "In a few days, if I have no concrete...
European Central Bank (ECB) president Jean-Claude Trichet said today the there is no room for complacency over inflation in the Eurozone. "Price stability in the medium term has to be ensured," Trichet told the European Commission's annual economic forum. "Of course, the ECB has to be credible in...
Vrijdag 16 mei 2008 | European Union ] Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, has welcomed the signing of a ceasefire and peace agreement between the government of the Central African Republic and the People's Army for the
Janez Potocnik European Commissioner for Science and Research Responding to Environmental Change: From Words to Deeds Policy Perspectives on Environmental Research - Conference "Bridging the Gap 2008" Portoroz (Slovenia), 16 May 2008 Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, my thanks go to the...
Louis Michel Commissaire européen au Développement et à l'Aide humanitaire "Base of the Pyramid" CSR Europe - Indeed, several decades of development aid did not bring the results we hoped. In order to cope with that on the EU side, the Commission has convinced the Member states in 2005 to agree...
