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Myanmar
Aid   Disaster   Myanmar   Photos   UN
 The Washington Times 
Aid strategy for cyclone victims
The country of Burma or Myanmar has already lost at least 25,000 of its citizens to a terrible cyclone over a week ago. Now, with well more than a million people adversely affected by the storm's... (photo: AP Photo)
Yangon International Airport, Rangoon
Aid   Burma   Military   Photos   Yangon
 Business Day 
Burma relief efforts still at a trickle�
YANGON - The first US military aid flight landed in Burma yesterday, but relief supplies dribbled into the reclusive state nine days after a devastating cyclone. A military transport aircraft left... (photo: U.S. Marine Corps / Sgt Andres Alcaraz )
Cyclone Nargis - Burman servicemembers and civilian aid workers stage and count the water offloaded from a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules May 12 at the Yangon International Airport  The Boston Globe 
US plane arrives to aid cyclone victims
BANGKOK - The head of the US Pacific Command flew into Burma yesterday aboard the first US military aid flight, to press for a full-scale international relief operation for victims of Cyclone Nargis.... (photo: USMC / Sgt. Andres Alcaraz)
Aid   Asia   Burma   Photos   US   Disaster
 Buddhist monks make their daily rounds in Yangon, Myanmar, as a family in a pedicab passes by early Saturday, May 4, 2002. While negotiations between Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the government continue so do the daily routines of most  The News & Observer 
Myanmar regime wary of monks' help

KYI BUI KHAW, MYANMAR - The saffron-robed monks who spearheaded a bloody uprising last fall against Myanmar's military rulers are back on the front lines, this time providing food, shelter and... (photo: AP Photo/David Longstreath)
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Secretary-General Chairs First UN Global Food Crisis Task Force Meeting AOL
UN chief slams Myanmar junta for slow response

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized Myanmar's military junta Monday for what he called its "unacceptably slow response" to helping cyclone... (photo: UN / Mark Garten)
Aid   Junta   Myanmar   Photos   Slideshow   UN
Enterprise High School after a tornado International Herald Tribune
In Myanmar, food aid only at the junta's behest

: When one of Myanmar's best known movie stars, Kyaw Dhyu, traveled through the Irrawaddy Delta recently to deliver aid to the victims of the May 3 cyclone, the military... (photo: AP / Rob Carr)
Food   Junta   Myanmar   Photos   Stars
Members of Myanmar's ruling military junta, Gen Thura Shwe, far left, Prime Minister Lt. Gen Thein Sein, left center, Lt. NZ Herald
Editorial: A deeply despicable regime
Until recently, all that was popularly known of the mute military regime that has ruled Myanmar for 56 years was its aversion to civil rights and outside scrutiny,... (photo: (AP Photo))
Aid   Disaster   Military   Myanmar   Photos
Yasuo Fukuda AOL
Fukuda seeks 'more active' U.N. engagement in Myanmar+

TOKYO, May 11 (Kyodo) - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has told a U.S. newspaper that he expects the United Nations to "more actively intervene" to help cyclone-hit Myanmar... (photo: Defense Dept. / Cherie A. Thurlby)
Japan   Photos   Politics   Tokyo   UN
Streets of Yangon, Myanmar. International Herald Tribune
Yangon moves on to life after the cyclone

: A week after a cyclone smashed into Myanmar, killing more than 28,000 people and endangering more than a million, the horrifying stories and gruesome pictures from the... (photo: Creative Commons / Colegota)
Disaster   Myanmar   Photos   Weather   Yangon


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