Fair Proxy Web (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A United Nations human rights envoy left Tuesday to inspect the devastation from the cyclone that struck Myanmar’s Irrawaddy river Delta three months ago. Tomas Ojea Quintana, the U.N. Human Rights Council investigator for Myanmar, is on a four-day mission to the country and had asked [...]
OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
YANGON (Reuters) - At least 38 people died when their ferry sank in a river in Myanmar’s cyclone-hit Irrawaddy Delta, official newspapers reported on Friday.
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
At least 38 people have died when a motorized ferry sank in a river of Burma's cyclone-battered Irrawaddy Delta. A state-run newspaper reported Friday that the ship, with 82 people on board, went down in the Yway river on Tuesday after water entered its stern section. It did not say exactly how the accident occurred but added that the remaining 44 people were rescued. The Delta was largely devastated...
DUCKPOND (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The arrogance of the Burmese Dictatorship appears to know no bounds, but the extent of the devastation and loss of life caused cyclone is appalling. More details follow, but the first part of the AP report, via The Boston Globe , sets the scene: A rare bird's-eye look at Burma's Irrawaddy Delta shows the devastation still left from Cyclone Nargis - broken levies, flooded farm roads, the shattered remains...
OTB News (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A rare bird’s-eye look at Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta shows the devastation still left from Cyclone Nargis - broken levies, flooded farm roads, the shattered remains of bamboo huts and trees strewn like matchsticks along the coast….
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
AP - A United Nations human rights envoy left Tuesday to inspect the devastation from the cyclone that struck Myanmar’s Irrawaddy river Delta three months ago. Read the full story
OTB News (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A United Nations human rights envoy left Tuesday to inspect the devastation from the cyclone that struck Myanmar’s Irrawaddy river Delta three months ago….
OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Three months after Cyclone Nargis slammed into army-run Myanmar, people in the worst-hit Irrawaddy Delta are still in dire need of food and clean water, hampering efforts to rebuild their lives, aid agencies say.
Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Thaung Htun; 29/7/08 If it were possible for human rights in Burma to be further assailed, then Cyclone Nargis managed to provide the opportunity. The storm, which swept through Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta in May, killed up to 140,000 and ruined the lives of millions. Human rights are also a victim of Nargis. Indeed, Human Rights Watch [...]
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Tin Tin Latt is among thousands of widows of fishermen in Burma’s cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy Delta who have been forced to become breadwinners without land to farm or the means to earn money from the sea. Read the full story
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Tin Tin Latt is among thousands of widows of fishermen in Burma’s cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy Delta who have been forced to become breadwinners without land to farm or the means to earn money from the sea. Read the full story
AbsolutelyThailand.blogspot.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Exactly one month ago Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta region, leaving more than 130,000 people dead or missing. Now aid workers are fighting to prevent a second disaster caused by disease and malnutrition. Selina Downes reports from Bangkok. ( AlJazeera English : June 03, 2008 )
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Reuters - Recovery from a cyclone that tore into Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta in May, leaving at least 138,000 dead or missing, will cost more than $1 billion, a report by the United Nations and Southeast Asian nations concluded. Read the full story
worldwide-news.net (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Recovery from a cyclone that tore into Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta in May, leaving at least 138,000 dead or missing, will cost more than $1 billion, a report by the United Nations and Southeast Asian nations concluded. Go to news source
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Study Finds Arsenic Threats in SE Asia BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Myanmar's cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy Delta and Indonesia's Sumatra island face high risks of ...
