Myanmar

Source: abclocal.go.com --- 15 hours ago
Myanmar's military rulers held a referendum Saturday aimed at solidifying their hold on power while brazenly turning cyclone relief efforts into a propaganda campaign. In some cases, generals' names were scribbled onto boxes of foreign aid before being distributed. ...

Source: www.latimes.com --- 15 hours ago
Officials on board urge the military government to permit an international relief operation, but are told only that it will be considered. A top U.S. admiral met the senior Myanmar naval officer on an airport tarmac in Yangon on Monday, urging him to open the country to an expanded international humanitarian mission that could reach hundreds of thousands of hungry and homeless cyclone victims. ...

Source: www.chron.com --- 16 hours ago
A U.S. plane ferried relief to Myanmar for the first time Monday to help nearly 2 million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation, but the U.N. chief criticized the military junta for its "unacceptably slow response." ...

Source: blogs.bet.com --- 14 hours ago
But the country’s military junta seems intent to control its distribution After initially being delayed by the nation’s military junta, international aid for Myanmar ’s cyclone victims might finally be entering the country. However, while they will accept the aid, the military is insisting that they distribute it themselves. “We’re getting, starting to get reports of [...] ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 14 hours ago
London Free Press May 12 2008 3:32PM GMT ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 15 hours ago
Centre Daily Times May 13 2008 5:48AM GMT ...

Source: www.dnaindia.com --- 15 hours ago
Myanmar's military rulers rejected growing international pressure to accept aid workers, insisting that it had the emergency cyclone relief effort under control. ...

Source: wcbstv.com --- 15 hours ago
A U.S. plane ferried relief to Myanmar for the first time Monday to help nearly 2 million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation, but both President Bush and the U.N. chief strongly criticized the military junta over its response to the deepening crisis. ...

Source: www.sanluisobispo.com --- 15 hours ago
"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. Covering catastrophes always carries risk in impoverished countries where disasters can cause shortages of food, clean water, outbreaks of disease and staggering death tolls. But the challenges are multiplied in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, where the reclusive and notoriously brutal military regime does not want details of the suffering to leak out. ...

Source: www.cnn.com --- 16 hours ago
By A. Chris Gajilan CNN Senior Producer Since last Monday, the Gupta team has been pushing hard to get into Myanmar. All the bags are packed and ready to go. Flashlights and headlamps - check. Water purification tablets - check. Malarone (an anti-malaria drug) and other meds - check. Camera batteries charged and ready to go - [...] ...

Source: www.wfp.org --- 16 hours ago
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Source: TheState.com --- 16 hours ago
YANGON, Myanmar — A U.S. plane ferried relief to Myanmar for the first time Monday to help nearly 2 million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation, but the U.N. chief criticized the military junta for its “unacceptably slow response.” Even as the death toll climbed, Myanmar’s authoritarian regime continued to bar nearly all foreigners experienced in managing humanitarian crises from reaching survivors of Cyclone Nargis. With hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed in the disaster zone, refugees packed into Buddhist monasteries or camped in the open, drinking dirty water contaminated by dead bodies and animal carcasses. Medicine and food were sorely lacking — even as supplies bottled up at the main international airport. Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, was pounded by heavy rain Monday, and more downpours were expected throughout the week, further hindering aid deliveries. For many, the rainwater was the only source of clean drinking water. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon chided the junta for its “unacceptably slow response” in helping victims of the disaster and warned of a deepening crisis. ...

Source: fr.globalvoicesonline.org --- 16 hours ago
Andrew Selth du blog The Interpreter [en anglais] écrit : “…les gouvernements et les agences internationales qui réclament l'action immédiate au Myanmar semblent surestimer la compétence du régime birman à réagir. Le régime a un pouvoir énorme mais il n'est pas la machine militaire efficace, bien organisée, et bien approvisionnée, que certains activistes prétendent.” ...

Source: fr.globalvoicesonline.org --- 16 hours ago
Tout d'abord, une mise à jour de la situation au Myamar, après le passage du cyclone Nargis. Le nombre de victimes continue à augmenter. Les chiffres officiels sont bien au dessous des estimations internationales. Le gouvernement annonce toujours que les victimes sont au nombre d'environ 23 000, tandis que de leur côté les centrales humanitaires avancent que le chiffre pourrait maintenant [...] ...

Source: www.wcsh6.com --- 16 hours ago
UTAPAO, Thailand (AP) A U.S. military official says a second flight has left with relief supplies for Myanmar's cyclone victims, and more flights are expected. ...

Source: chemgen.wordpress.com --- 16 hours ago
The latest development in the media reporting is not on who is giving how much and doing what, instead it is that the Burmese junta is keeping out foreign aid. Burma-bashing again by the media especially the “Western” ones, but who can blame them for headlining news worthy stories? The Burma junta is some serious [...] ...

Source: cielardent9.wordpress.com --- 15 hours ago
More aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar - but so is the heavy rain. A week after Cyclone Nargis flattened low-lying villages and killed whole families at a time, the military junta finally agreed Friday to allow a U.S. cargo plane to bring in food and other supplies to the isolated country. Myanmar [...] ...

Source: www.sinlung.com --- 16 hours ago
New Delhi, May 12 : Myanmar has said it is ready to accept international relief and medical supplies, the Indian foreign ministry said Monday as it sent an aircraft carrying meals to its cyclone-hit neighbour. Addressing the press in New Delhi, foreign ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna said that so far two Indian navy ships and [...] ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 14 hours ago
"There may be cases were neighbors came back and because of the tidal surge, the bodies were dispersed" As the bloated bodies rise and fall with the current, women scrub clothes along the river bank, villagers bathe to cool themselves and a lone child sits on a dock staring aimlessly into the water. But with little aid getting through to desperate cyclone survivors, the dead have largely been forgotten _ left to decay where the brackish waters carried them or waiting to be pulled out to sea by the rising tides. 'The first few we saw, we were all very shocked,' said U Pinyatale, a monk from the area who has prayed for the dead. 'After a while, there were just too many.' Read more ...