 | Burma expels foreign aid workers
The Australian | THE Burmese authorities have sealed off the cyclone disaster zone from the outside world, expelling foreign aid workers and placing multiple checkpoints along roads into the Irrawaddy Delta, to the ... (photo: AP / Wally Santana) | |
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 | Myanmar approves new constitution while it reels
Houston Chronicle TOOLS | YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's junta announced Thursday that a pro-military constitution has won overwhelming support in a referendum, which was held despite widespread criticism and in the midst... (photo: AP Photo) | |
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 UN sends top official to Myanmar as ASEAN steps up
Turkish Press | A UNICEF photo shows UNICEF, Red Cross Society and other health organisation workers using a boat to reach a remote township hit by the cyclone Nargis. | (AFP/UNICEF) | UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said... (photo: PIB) |
| Aid Asean Myanmar Photos Slideshow Unicef |
 Compassion in the midst of tragedies
The Star | As the people of Myanmar struggle in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, along comes the earthquake in Sichuan, giving contrasting pictures of how humanitarian efforts can be mobilised to bring help and hop... (photo: U.S. Marine Corps / Cpl. Eric Arndt) |
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 Myanmar cyclone death toll rises to 38,491
China Daily (Xinhua) | Updated: 2008-05-15 06:44 | YANGON -- The death toll of Myanmar's cyclone storm Nargis rose by 4,218, bringing the total number to 38,491, the state radio repo... (photo: US Marine Corp / Sgt. Ezekiel R. Kitandwe) |
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 Letters: British nuclear power
The Independent | Sir: It beggars belief that the British government should be happy to sell its 35 per cent stake in British Energy to EDF, a company 80 per cent owned by the French gov... (photo: AP Photo/Dave Thompson) |
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 2.5 million affected by cyclone - UN
The Australian | UN calls donor and Asian states to talks Junta still won't allow aid workers in US emergency flights to continue for now | THE UN has estimated the number of people aff... (photo: AP / ) |
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 UN to meet over Myanmar
TVNZ May 15, 2008 6:19 AM | The United Nations has estimated those affected by the Myanmar cyclone at up to 2.5 million and called an urgent meeting of big donors and Asian st... (photo: AP / Leon Neal, Pool) |
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 Ban calls Burma emergency talks
The Australian | UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called an emergency meeting on Burma's aid crisis, as the junta refused to open up to a full-scale relief effort despite grave fears for two mi... (photo: AP/Tina Fineberg) |
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 Nepal to get China rail link
Asia Times | By Sudha Ramachandran | BANGALORE - China has begun building a railway connecting the Tibetan capital of Lhasa with the market town of Khasa on the Sino-Nepal border. T... (photo: AP / Xinhua) |
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