Myanmar (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
U.N. Undersecretary-General Noeleen Heyzer issued a plea Friday for donations of one million gallons of diesel fuel to help farmers run the tillers.
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
China and other countries. Rice fields are planted in June and July."The window of opportunity is very short, and the need is of the utmost urgency," Heyzer was quoted saying. "The planting season in ...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
YANGON, Myanmar Myanmar urgently needs diesel fuel to run the rice-tilling machines that are replacing water buffalo killed by Cyclone Nargis in the Irrawaddy delta, a senior U.N. official said Friday.
The call by U.N. Undersecretary-General Noeleen Heyzer, head of the world body's headquarters for Asia, came as Myanmar's state-controlled press said that aid from the United States could...
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
... Nargis."The window of opportunity is very short, and the need is of the utmost urgency," Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), said today in a statement. "The planting season in the Delta is June to July after which it will be too late, with disastrous consequences for food security in Myanmar and the region."In a meeting...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
... storm-devastated Irrawaddy delta, a senior U.N. official said.U.N. Undersecretary-General Noeleen Heyzer said it would be too late to start a rice crop after the normal planting season in June and July.Tens of millions of dollars have been donated to help victims of the May 2-3 cyclone, which killed more than 78,000 people, but the secretive regime has been reluctant to accept foreign relief...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
... window of opportunity is very short, and the need is of the utmost urgency," U.N. official Noeleen Heyzer said."The planting season in the Delta is June to July, after which it will be too late -- with disastrous consequences for food security in Myanmar and the region." (Reporting by Nopporn Wong-Anan; Editing by Ed Cropley)
