Death toll in Myanmar soars above 43,000; junta warns against hoarding
May 16, 2008
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS : RANGOON, Myanmar - Myanmar’s junta warned Thursday that legal action would be taken against people who trade or hoard international aid as the cyclone’s death toll soared above 43,000. Read more… »
Storm victims arrested and driven out from shelters
May 16, 2008
DVB - Aye Nai : The police attacked and arrested a storm victim and a member of South Dagon Township National League for Democracy (NLD) member today for attempting to meet with UN officials in Rangoon. Read more… »
US pushes for helicopters to ferry Myanmar relief
May 16, 2008
Eric Talmadge - AP : The door is open. But just a crack. Myanmar’s isolationist ruling junta is now allowing U.S. military cargo planes to regularly fly relief supplies into their largest city to provide aid to cyclone survivors. Read more… »
Behind the Story in Laputta
May 16, 2008
The following is an Internet conversation between an Irrawaddy editor and an Irrawaddy correspondent in Rangoon, who had just returned from Laputta Township in the Irrawaddy delta. Read more… »
Myanmar lets ICRC deliver aid to detention centres
May 16, 2008
GENEVA, May 13 (Reuters) - Myanmar authorities have allowed the International Committee of the Red Cross to distribute food and other supplies to inmates held in three detention centres in cyclone-hit areas, the ICRC said on Tuesday. Read more… »
Up to 128,000 may have died in Myanmar
May 16, 2008
YANGON, Myanmar (Map, News) - The Red Cross estimated Wednesday that the cyclone death toll in Myanmar could be as high as 128,000 - a much larger figure than the government tally. The U.N. warned a second wave of deaths will follow unless the military regime lets in more aid quickly. Read more… »
Myanmar children in danger from abusers
May 15, 2008
BNN : Aid groups in Myanmar say children are now being targeted by child traffickers. In the hardest-hit regions of the Irrawaddy delta, hungry and barefoot children dressed in rags have been left begging on roadsides. Read more… »
Thai team to go Myanmar cyclone area
May 15, 2008
BANGKOK, Thailand (Map, News) - An Thai official says Myanmar’s military government has given permission to a Thai medical team to go to the cyclone-ravaged delta. Read more… »
International community considers forced aid to Myanmar
May 15, 2008
BNN : The 1.5 million people left destitute by Cylone Nargis in Myanmar are becoming increasingly desperate with foreign aid still only trickling in Read more… »
Burma issued with cyclone warning
May 15, 2008
BNN : Meteorologists have warned that another cyclone could hit Burma’s capital city, Rangoon, within 24 hours. The South East Asian country, also known as Myanmar, is still struggling to recover from Cyclone Nargis, which roared through its rice bowl on May 3, killing up to 100,000 people and leaving 1.5 million people destitute. Read more… »
U.S. Boosts Aid, Flights for Myanmar Cyclone Relief
May 14, 2008
By Demian McLean, May 12 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. won permission to land more relief flights in Myanmar and boosted its aid offer five-fold to $16.25 million today after a Navy admiral met with the military regime Read more… »
Burma state media ignore tragedy
May 13, 2008
Rangoon : SURVIVORS and aid workers emerge from Burma’s devastated Irrawaddy delta with stories of families wiped out, bodies floating in rice paddies and starving cyclone victims begging by the roadside. But none of that is making it into the tightly controlled state media. Read more… »
Germany despatches clean-water team to Myanmar
May 13, 2008
The Earth Times : Frankfurt - A German civil-defence team was flying Tuesday to Myanmar to assess sites for water-purification plants in the disaster area after Cyclone Nargis, the THW agency said in Frankfurt. The mission, in association with the UN World Food Programme and funded by the German Foreign Ministry, plans to set up six clean-water plants in areas where filthy water is spreading fatal diseases more than a week after the killer storm ravaged parts of Myanmar. Read more… »
First UK aid plane heads to Burma
May 13, 2008
ITN : The first planeload of British aid is heading for cyclone-ravaged Burma where an estimated 100,000 people have died. Aid flights from the US, as well as India and Malaysia are also expected in the South East Asian country later. Read more… »
Dangers of reporting on Myanmar’s cyclone
May 13, 2008
BANGKOK, Thailand (Map, News) - “I can’t talk now, I think I’m in danger,” a reporter in Myanmar whispered into the phone. Click. Phones are tapped and the few foreign journalists inside Myanmar are operating in secret, making it dangerous and difficult to tell the story of the cyclone that has devastated the Southeast Asian country. Read more… »
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