Photos of Burma Devastated by Storm

Photos of Burma Devastated by Storm
Burma Digest

photos from AP, AFP, Reuters, BBC & MRTV

60,000 Dead or Missing in Burma

60,000 Dead or Missing in Burma

Bush Offers Navy Units, Criticizes Junta as Storm Aid Begins to Reach Rangoon

By Amy Kazmin
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, May 7, 2008; Page A01
 
BANGKOK, May 6 — The number of dead and missing in the Burma cyclone soared past 60,000 Tuesday amid signs the toll will rise even higher, as [...]

Masters of malaise everywhere

Masters of malaise everywhere
Sorry folks, this kind of discrimination could be seen everywhere. But it is still manageable and not too bad here. In Burma, I was the top student in my class in every subject in every year. And I got first in the written examination for the post-grad entrance examination for all the [...]

Out of tragedy, light may shine on Burma

Out of tragedy, light may shine on Burma
Rangoon
They are cruel, power hungry and dangerously irrational – beyond that, little can be said for certain about Burma’s ruling generals. Reading them is less like Kremlinology, more like Byzantine studies.
They may regard the cyclone which devastated their country on Friday night as an ill omen from the [...]

BBC reporter deported from Rangoon airport

 BBC reporter deported from Rangoon airport
Mizzima News   Tuesday, 06 May 2008 19:57
Chiang Mai – The Burmese military junta deported a BBC reporter from the Rangoon airport yesterday. The British national Mr. Andrew William Fardae arrived in the Thai Airways International at Rangoon airport in May 5 afternoon but was deported from the airport by the regime [...]

Myanmar red tape blocks relief work

Myanmar cyclone toll rises but relief effort lags
 

 
Officials say as many as 22,000 are dead. The government says aid groups will be allowed in, but efforts are delayed by visa procedures.
By Mark Magnier and Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
May 7, 2008
BEIJING — The death toll continued to climb in Myanmar as state [...]

UN begins food distribution in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar

UN begins food distribution in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar
GENEVA: The UN’s World Food Programme on Tuesday said it has reached the first of an estimated 1 million people left homeless by the devastating cyclone that ravaged the coast of Myanmar.
It added, however, that many coastal areas remained cut off from food supplies because of flooding and [...]

Deafening silence from Malaysia regarding Myanmar Cyclone?

Deafening silence from Malaysia regarding Myanmar Cyclone?
 
First of all I wish to apologize if I am wrong.
 
If Malaysian Government had already sent the condolence note to Myanmar, I am sorry for writing this.
 
If Malaysian Government, GLCs (government Linked companies), NST, TV3, NTV7, RTM and NGOs (esp. government affiliated) had already started a campaign to help [...]