The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Beijing - An estimated 5 million people left homeless by the quake in Sichuan province in south-western China awoke Saturday from a fifth night in difficult conditions, with tons of relief supplies flooding into the disaster zone. Amid wrecked infras...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Beijing - An estimated 5 million people left homeless by the quake in Sichuan province in south-western China awoke Saturday from a fifth night in difficult conditions, with tons of relief supplies flooding into the disaster zone. Amid wrecked infras...
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fourteen days after Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar, the needs remain immense in the Irawaddy Delta. Teams with the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) are delivering direct medical assistance and relief supplies to tens of thousands of people. However, MSF urges an immediate scale up of overall relief operations, which...
News & Information (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH GOVERNMENT'S PLAN TO SEND RELIEF SUPPLIES) Taiwan will fly donated relief supplies to quake-struck China on Thursday in rare, direct cargo flights across……Read more
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Fourteen days after Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar, needs remain immense in the Irawaddy Delta. Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are delivering medical assistance and relief supplies directly to tens...
Department of Defense (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The U.S. military has flown nearly 100 tons of humanitarian relief supplies into Burma to assist its cyclone-stricken people, a senior Pentagon official said.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
A Chinese aircraft, Air China, in its regular flights from Kunming to Yangon, brought along 2 tons of relief supplies from the Yunnan provincial government of China Thursday afternoon for delivery to Myanmar cyclone-hit victims. The ...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | yesterday
New Delhi – Burma's military government on Friday warned that it will investigate cases of stealing or hoarding aid supplies for cyclone victims and will punish those found guilty. The warning, p...
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
BANGKOK, May 14 — The United States landed five more planeloads of relief supplies in Burma Wednesday to help survivors of Tropical Cyclone Nargis, and Burmese authorities agreed to let 160 Asian aid workers assist its struggling relief effort. But the country's reclusive military rulers continued… Read the full story
Myanmar (Free subscription) | yesterday
Doctors Without Borders Calls for Immediate and Unobstructed Escalation of Myanmar Relief Operations YANGON/GENEVA/NEW YORK - May 16 - Fourteen days after Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar, the needs rema...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
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.
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
The Burmese military junta is instrumental in making a mockery of human tragedy. Over 100,000 lives were lost and two million rendered homeless by cyclone Nargis and yet relief material donated by the...
The News Market (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Two days after the largest earthquake to hit China in a generation, the government of China has now requested the support of the international community to help respond to the needs of these families.
Global Security (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Today, five more plane loads of relief supplies were delivered by U.S. military aircraft as part of Joint Task Force Caring Response, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters. That makes for a total of about 98 tons of U.S. military-delivered supplies to Burma, including water, food, blankets and more, Whitman said. “We continue to offer our assistance,” Whitman said. “At...
DND/CF (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
TRENTON, ON – Forty metric tonnes of emergency relief supplies will be loaded onto a CC-177 Globemaster III aircraft at CFB Trenton tomorrow, for delivery to Bangkok, Thailand. This shipment is part of the initial $2 million commitment Canada made on May 5, 2008 to respond to Tropical Cyclone Nargis.
