IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
5 Nov 2009 The US sends a high-level delegation to Burma in advance of President Barack Obama's ASEAN summit next week, but little progress is expected any time soon, Simon Roughneen comments for ISN Security Watch. By Simon Roughneen for ISN Security Watch A high-level US delegation visited Burma on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, meeting with Prime Minister General Thein Sein and with opposition...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Yangon - Myanmar exported 670,000 tons of rice in the fiscal year that ended March 31 despite the devastation wrought by Cyclone Nargis and expected to export up to 1 million tons this fiscal year, media reports said Sunday. The export volume of ric...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Myanmar's ruling military junta on Friday freed two journalists who helped victims of 2008's Cyclone Nargis reach a UN aid office, and released several opposition activists as part of an amnesty granted to more than 7,000 prisoners.
Citizen News Service (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
WHO's unique health emergency fund gets a boost from Timor‐Leste Timor‐Leste, the South‐East Asia Region’s youngest nation, has announced that it will make a contribution to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) unique million‐dollar health emergency fund, whose fast and flexible disbursement mechanism has already allowed it to make a difference to more than 200,...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Cyclone Nargis redrew the coastline of Myanmar in May 2008, wiping out hundreds of villages and ruining thousands of lives. (..) They are here to help the residents of Boe Ba Gone and Thai Kone build a connecting road between the two villages as part of a UN World Food Programme (WFP) food-for-work project.
UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Boons makes some good points below . I'll add just one thing: In his two and a half years in office, Ban Ki Moon has generally eschewed the kind of moral grandstanding that earned his predecessor Kofi Annan great respect in some quarters and enemies in others. Instead, Ban has opted for what he calls "quiet diplomacy" that generally involves direct, private consultations with the world's...
KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
Friday, July 4, 2008 No More Ban Ki-moon, Please I am one of the volunteers who have been helping Cyclone Nargis victims in the Irrawaddy delta. When the cyclone struck, we were shocked that the authorities did not warn us of the coming disaster or come to the assistance of victims, even though they had the means to kill our people and our monks last September. We naturally hoped for aid from anybody...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
For aid workers, accessing Myanmar's cyclone-stricken Ayeyarwady Delta had meant a hop into the World Food Programme (WFP) helicopter and being airborne for about an hour. Not any more. The service stopped on 15 August after Myanmar's government failed to extend it. "It is back to six-hour-long road trips or boat rides," grumbled an aid worker. Chris Kaye, WFP country director, confirmed...
Worldfocus (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
American John Yettaw headed home on Wednesday after two days of medical treatments in Thailand and three months under arrest in Myanmar, also known as Burma. He was sentenced to seven years of hard labor after he swam across a lake to the home of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, claiming he was on [...]
The Random Musings and Rants of a 30+ Englishman (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Well no surprise the military found Aung San Suu Kyi guilty. However there were two things that subsequently followed that did surprise me: 1) 5 minutes after the verdict was read out Burma's Home minister entered the court room and commuted the 3 year sentence to 18 months and indicated that Suu Kyi would be able to serve this from her home in Rangoon. (In other words an effective return to the status...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
Cyclone Nargis struck Burma's Irrawaddy delta last May, killing 140,000 people and destroying 800,000 homes, but now international efforts to help survivors rebuild are petering out with up to 500,000 people stuck in squalor
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
New Zealander Alastair Cook has been a WFP logistics officer since 2004, facing many challenging situations, including the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. He says the toughest job he's faced so far was in Kenya, after the election violence had spread terror among WFP beneficiaries.
UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | 07/13/2009
S-G Ban is briefing the Security Council on his recent trip to Burma today. And while Britain's Foreign Minister may have praised Ban's trip, others were less sanguine about the outcome of his meetings with Burma's ruling junta. Most of this criticism has focused on the fact that Ban was not able to meet with jailed "on trial" opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. But Refugees International's...
UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
From Miliband's most recent blog post . The British were supportive of Ban's recent trip to Burma. Ban Ki Moon deserves credit for not taking no for an answer from the Burmese authorities. He refused to postpone his visit - a visit that he promised to make when he visited the country at the time of Cyclone Nargis to discuss political and economic reform. Ban's closing speech was clear and definitive...
David Miliband (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
Ban Ki Moon deserves credit for not taking no for an answer from the Burmese authorities. He refused to postpone his visit - a visit that he promised to make when he visited the country at the time of Cyclone Nargis to discuss political and economic reform. Ban's closing speech was clear and definitive - the regime's refusal to engage properly was reprehensible. The easy course would have been to be...
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babylittle | 06/13/2008
As Irrawaddy went to report on Wednesday, June 11th 2008, despite the announcement of a major multilateral operation to determine the scope of cyclone Nargis on Burma, 18 cyclone victims (women and children) were arrested following
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