Myanmar (Free subscription) | yesterday
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon flew to Burma on Thursday to press the ruling generals to allow a full-blown international aid effort for 2,4-million people left destitute by Cyclone Nargis.
i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | yesterday
Viewed as a curse by those who lost their homes and loved ones to Cyclone Nargis, heavy rain in recent weeks is proving a saviour of sorts to thousands of cyclone survivors in need of safe drinking water. “When it rains, I feel it is a blessing,” Daw Khin, a woman in her early fifties in the village of Pawin outside Bogale Township at the far tip of the delta, said. “Now what I have to do when it rains...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Burmese authorities will close three remaining refugee camps in Laputta, one of the areas hardest-hit by Cyclone Nargis, on August 5, forcing about 6,000 remaining refugees to return to their villages...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
New Delhi - The United Nations food agency on Thursday stepped up its appeal for aid to US$ 33.5 million for farmers in Burma's main rice producing region devastated by Cyclone Nargis, since 75 per ce...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Foreign Minister George Yeo gave the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) a grade C for its handling of Burma following the Cyclone Nargis disaster in May, when the country’s ruling j...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
(2 hrs ago) The United Nations food agency tripled its aid appeal for farmers in Myanmar's rice-producing region devastated by Cyclone Nargis, saying three-quarters of them are short of seeds needed...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
A United Nations food agency is appealing for more money to help fishermen and farmers in Burma who were hard hit by Cyclone Nargis.The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization issued an appeal ...
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Viewed as a curse by those who lost their homes and loved ones to Cyclone Nargis, heavy rain in recent weeks is proving a saviour of sorts to thousands of cyclone survivors in need of safe drinking water.
Relief Web (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Southwest Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Subsequent to Cyclone Nargis, a category 3 tropical storm that struck the low-lying and heavily populated coastline of Myanmar on May 2, 2008, the Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) began producing a series of geographic information system (GIS)-based maps of the damaged agricultural areas to accompany its commodity intelligence reports.
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Philip Bowring asks if the Association of South-East Asian Nations has a future Last year Asean celebrated its 40th anniversary, but the ten-state grouping must now face the question of whether its evolution has stalled. The organisation's response to the catastrophe unleashed by Cyclone Nargis on Burma in May this year was hesitant and tardy, and its condemnation of the Burmese regime's crackdown...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The first thing that struck him when he climbed off the commercial flight in the Burmese former capital of Rangoon on May 16, two weeks after the devastation of Cyclone Nargis, was the disquieting cal...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
YANGON, MYANMAR: Myanmar's military regime has approved visas for more than 1,500 international aid workers to help victims of Cyclone Nargis, with half of them involved in relief operations in storm-...
ac360blog (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
CNN's Betty Nguyen reports on Myanmar farmers struggling to survive after cyclone Nargis. Even after the disaster, it's a hard road ahead as they try to salvage their crops.
UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Discussing Myanmar's invitation for the UN envoy to the country, Ibrahim Gambari, to visit the country, Louis Charbonneau of Reuters writes: Security Council diplomats in New York say that enough time has past since Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar two months...
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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
