World Focus on Burma (8 May 08) part 2
Burmese Government Approves US Military Relief Flight
Voice of America -
By VOA News Burma’s military government has given permission for a US military plane to deliver emergency aid to survivors of last week’s cyclone that …
Aid flights to take off for Myanmar
Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran - … to deliver 20 tons of relief five days after Cyclone Nargis spawned widespread death and desperation in Myanmar, which was formerly known as Burma. …
First UN relief flight lands in Myanmar after 2 day delay
Town Hall, DC -
The U.N.’s World Food Program says one of its planes has landed in Myanmar as part of the first major international airlift of aid to cyclone victims.
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UN still waiting for permission to send food aid into Burma CBC.ca, Canada - A fourth shipment of biscuits aboard a Thai Airways cargo flight is expected to deliver food aid to Burma, also known as Myanmar, later Thursday, he said. … |
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Central Floridians reach out to relatives in Myanmar Orlando Sentinel, FL - But Saturday’s cyclone has brought natives of Myanmar — also known as Burma — closer together. “We pray for their suffering,” said Than Chokun Sunan, … |
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Aid Arrives in Myanmar as Cyclone Death Toll Rises (Update3) Bloomberg - By Ed Johnson and Demian McLean May 8 (Bloomberg) — Emergency aid began arriving in Myanmar in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, as the United Nations said … |
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DEATH TOLL COULD HIT 100000 IN MYANMAR Orlando Sentinel, FL - The UN said about 1 million people were left homeless in the Southeast Asian country, also known as Burma. Some local aid workers said heavily flooded areas … |
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‘I knew I’d lost my family,’ says Burma fisherman Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa - Myanmar’s military government says at least 10 000 people died in Bogalay alone. Twenty soldiers guarded meagre supplies of rice and instant noodles in a … |
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ThePigSite.com, UK - MYANMAR – The recent cyclone in Myanmar (Burma) is expected to severely hit the country’s agriculture and aquaculture industries. The five affected states … |
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Severe Weather Threatens South AccuWeather.com - With the rainy monsoon season underway, rain and thunderstorms will continue to periodically wet Myanmar, also known as Burma, through the weekend. … |
Local aid going to cyclone zone
Peterborough Examiner, Canada -
Local aid organizations are joining forces with their international branches to provide relief to Burma, also known as Myanmar. …
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Cincinnati Enquirer, OH - In Myanmar, formally known as Burma, a paranoid and corrupt military junta apparently would rather risk mass starvation and outbreaks of disease than accept … |
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Reuters AlertNet, UK - … that the storm had intensified significantly over the previous six hours and was expected to come ashore in Myanmar (Burma) in the evening of May 2. … |
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Reuters AlertNet, UK - A disaster unfolded in Myanmar (Burma) in early May 2008, as Cyclone Nargis swept over the Irrawaddy River Delta, pummeling the area with high winds, … |
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Las Vegas Review – Journal, NV - … Cuba, Zimbabwe, Libya, Burma (Myanmar), Turkmenistan, Iran, Belarus, Bangladesh, Venezuela, Guineau-Bissau, and the Republic of the Congo. … |
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Daily – University of Washington, WA - By Editorial Staff The death toll has reached 100000 in Myanmar (Burma) since Cyclone Nargis hit this past weekend, and international aid is only now … |
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ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland - The Estonian Foreign Ministry is helping people in Burma (also known as Myanmar) who are suffering in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis with 500000 kroons, … |
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Myanmar places votes before relief Asia Times Online, Hong Kong - Burma News International (BNI) – an umbrella group of more than 10 publications and agencies – which interviewed more than 2000 voters across the county, … |
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OneNewsNow, MS - Burma — also known as Myanmar — is almost exclusively a Buddhist country, says Yohannan. He is also appealing for prayers and financial support as GFA … |
Ekklesia, UK - The Church sent an immediate solidarity grant of £10000 to the Methodist Church in Myanmar and has launched a joint appeal with MRDF. …
Reuters AlertNet, UK - A disaster unfolded in Myanmar (Burma) in early May 2008, as Cyclone Nargis swept over the Irrawaddy River Delta, pummeling the area with high winds, …
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Las Vegas Review – Journal, NV - … Cuba, Zimbabwe, Libya, Burma (Myanmar), Turkmenistan, Iran, Belarus, Bangladesh, Venezuela, Guineau-Bissau, and the Republic of the Congo. … |
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Voice of America - By VOA News Burma’s military government has given permission for a US military plane to deliver emergency aid to survivors of last week’s cyclone that … |
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Daily – University of Washington, WA - By Editorial Staff The death toll has reached 100000 in Myanmar (Burma) since Cyclone Nargis hit this past weekend, and international aid is only now … |
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ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland - The Estonian Foreign Ministry is helping people in Burma (also known as Myanmar) who are suffering in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis with 500000 kroons, … |
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Asia Times Online, Hong Kong - Burma News International (BNI) – an umbrella group of more than 10 publications and agencies – which interviewed more than 2000 voters across the county, … |
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Ekklesia, UK - The Church sent an immediate solidarity grant of £10000 to the Methodist Church in Myanmar and has launched a joint appeal with MRDF. … |
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Edmonton Sun, Canada - By THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canadian aid agencies stepped up efforts to get relief for cyclone-hit Myanmar yesterday, with a group of agencies … |
Radio New Zealand, New Zealand -
The decision is a surprise given the huge distrust and acrimony between the former Burma’s generals and Washington. A US embassy official in Bangkok says …
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Fears for the lives of 17 Britons after Burma cyclone disaster Mirror.co.uk, UK - By Mirror.co.uk 8/05/2008 Fears are growing for the wellbeing of 17 Britons missing since Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar ( Burma ). … |
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Myanmar disaster boosts pulse crop prices StarPhoenix, Canada - With Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, a major exporter of pulses to India and other South Asian countries, the price of pulse crops has risen recently, … |
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Minden woman fears for nephew abroad Reno Gazette Journal, NV - … formerly called Burma, borders China, Laos, Thailand, Bangladesh, and India with the Bay of Bengal to the southwest. Doctors in Myanmar told Dhindsa … |
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Bodies rot in cyclone-hit Burma Independent Online, South Africa - Kanyinkone, Myanmar – Piles of rotting corpses are stacking up in remote villages of Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta, with residents saying they don’t have enough … |
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German Aid Group Puts Burma Cyclone Death Toll at 50000 Deutsche Welle, Germany - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy said survivors were in “urgent need” of foreign assistance but the White House … |
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Waterloo Record, Canada - … in Myanmar is growing “increasingly horrendous,” say diplomats on the ground in the notoriously closed Southeast Asian nation, formerly known as Burma. … |
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Burma cyclone death toll continues to rise Radio Australia, Australia - “We have been discussing that intensively with the government in Myanmar both here and in Yangoon, (and) I think we are making some progress,” he said. … |
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Burma approves US military aid flights Special Broadcasting Service, Australia - “We have helped the Americans to talk to the Myanmar (Burma) government to allow US planes … to fly humanitarian aid to Myanmar. … |
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VIDEO: Cyclone death toll may top 100000 Reuters AlertNet, UK - May 7 – More than 100000 people are now thought to have perished in a powerful Cyclone which devastated Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta region. … |
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VENTING /vent?ing/ vt to give free play or expression to an … Edmonton Journal, Canada - Why does the media constantly need to remind us that Myanmar used to be called Burma? That’s like saying, “Meanwhile in Montreal, formerly Hochelaga . … |
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Canada waiting for the go-ahead to deliver aid Toronto Star, Canada - The United States, a vocal critic of the military junta that has ruled Burma, also known as Myanmar, for more than four decades, said humanitarian access … |
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Seventeen Britons missing in Burma since cyclone hit as death toll … Mail on Sunday, UK - Three planes loaded with vital UN emergency supplies for Myanmar’s cyclone victims were delayed otoday, awaiting clearance from the military government … |
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Cyclone toll likely to grow as aid delayed Calgary Herald, Canada - While much is on hold, some international aid is trickling into Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. The Thai government was allowed to bring in a planeload of … |
Desperate call goes out for aid
Canoe.ca, Canada -
By SHARON LEM, SUN MEDIA Canadian charitable groups are extending a hand to cyclone victims in Myanmar who are in dire need of food, shelter, drinking water …
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Myanmar junta allows US military relief flights TREND Information, Azerbaijan - The decision is a surprise given the huge distrust and acrimony between the former Burma’s generals and Washington, which has imposed tough sanctions to try … |
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Myanmar allows US relief, 100000 feared to be dead Hürriyet, Turkey - UN officials estimated some 1 million people had been left homeless in Myanmar , which also is known as Burma . Cyclone Nargis, which means “daffodil” in … |
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BURMA AUTHORIZES US MILITARY FLIGHTS CARRYING AID Agenzia Giornalistica Italia, Italy - “We have helped the Americans to contact the Myanmar government because their planed are taking part in the Cobra Gold manoeuvres and it would allow them to … |
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Burma cyclone: 17 Britons still missing Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - The authorities in Burma – called Myanmar by its military rulers – have allowed US military planes carrying aid to land in the cyclone-hit country, … |
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Local Help for Myanmar Victims KHNL-TV/KHBC/KOGG, HI - “Mostly cash because for us to be sending, it’ll cost a lot in shipment from Honolulu to Burma, so we’re trying to save that cost and get most of the items … |
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China urges Myanmar to work with intl community on aid The Associated Press - BEIJING (AP) — China has urged close ally Myanmar to work with the international community to recover from a cyclone that killed tens of thousands. … |
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Del. couple hoping disaster brings change The News Journal, DE - “From Thailand or Bangkok, to fly to Burma is only an hour,” he said. But their time in Myanmar “was strictly a holiday.” In a land of pagodas and temples, … |
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Myanmar: First visas issued to relief teams Human Rights Tribune, Switzerland - IRIN, Bangkok – The news may ease frustration that efforts to help some one million survivors of Myanmar’s catastrophic cyclone are being hindered by the … |
Burma blocking UN emergency aid
The Press Association -
Burma’s isolationist government is blocking United Nations efforts to airlift urgently needed food aid to survivors of the cyclone which may have killed …
Cyclone cracks Myanmar junta’s isolation
United Press International -
But help has begun to reach people in the main city of Yangon and elsewhere in the Southeast Asian country, formerly known as Burma, which since the 1962 …
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Burma lets cyclone aid into country The Australian, Australia - “We have helped the Americans to talk to the Myanmar (Burma) government to allow US planes … to fly humanitarian aid to Myanmar. … |
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Desperate survivors fight for food Globe and Mail, Canada - BANGKOK — Fighting erupted among starving survivors of the Myanmar cyclone yesterday as the military junta continued to prevent relief workers from … |
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Aid trickles into Myanmar, but more than a million in need Radio New Zealand, New Zealand - The first United Nations relief flights have begun arriving in Myanmar to help victims of Cyclone Nargis, with about 5000 square kilometres of the Irrawaddy … |
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After the cyclone, Burmese face further woes at the hands of their … Vancouver Sun, Canada - As if a devastating natural disaster weren’t enough, Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, now seems on the verge of a disaster of human provenance. … |
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Aid flights wait to take off for CNN International - The country’s name was changed from Burma to Myanmar in 1989, but many who do not recognize the current government still use its former name. … |
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UN: Myanmar blocks UN emergency airlift for cyclone victims The Associated Press - UN officials estimated some 1 million people had been left homeless in Myanmar, which also is known as Burma. Some aid workers said heavily flooded areas … |
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Editorial: Myanmar’s man-made disaster Dallas Morning News, TX - Yet days after the cyclone’s landfall, the paranoid generals who run Myanmar – also known as Burma – are still letting only a trickle of international … |
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Aid agencies continue pressure on Burma ABC Online, Australia - Sporadic power and water supplies returned to parts of Myanmar’s biggest city Rangoon and the prices of basic food dropped, signals of a gradual recovery … |
Local Burmese groups help cyclone victims
abc7news.com, CA -
Dozens gathered in Fremont to figure out an action plan to help friends and family in the country they still call ‘Burma.’ Those in Fremont found the …
