UN suspends aid flights to Myanmar

UN suspends aid flights to Myanmar
Aileen McCabe – Asia Correspondent ,  Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, May 09, 2008
BANGKOK – The United Nations suspended aid flights to Myanmar on Friday after the military government imposed “unacceptable” restrictions on relief efforts for 1.5 million victim cyclone victims.
The junta seized two aid deliveries at Yangon airport, apparently determined to [...]

Cyclone: Buddhist chief appeals to Burma junta

Cyclone: Buddhist chief appeals to Burma junta
Malaysiakini news May 9, 08 3:04pm
The leader of Malaysia’s Buddhists today urged Burma to allow foreign aid workers to enter the reclusive nation after a cyclone left tens of thousands dead and more than a million homeless.
Tropical cyclone Nargis hit Burma over the weekend, leaving at least 63,000 dead [...]

1.5 million people ’severely affected’ by Myanmar cyclone: UN

1.5 million people ’severely affected’ by Myanmar cyclone: UN

NEW YORK: Some 1.5 million people have been “severely affected” by cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar last weekend, a UN official has said.
Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar last Saturday, devastating large parts of the country. The toll, which has been estimated at over 100,000 by western diplomats, is [...]

Is DAP means unDemocratic Aperthoid Pots, calling the kettle black?

Is DAP means unDemocratic Aperthoid Pots,
calling the kettle black?
According to a very short report in the 09-05-2008 Star News paper, Malaysian Home Minister answered the MP Karpal Singh’s question that looks like he wanted to prohibit the foreigners’ entrance into Kuala Lumpur.
The Star Online News, “Can’t stop foreign workers from going into city”
Friday May [...]

Asean should pressure the Myanmar government to allow western aid-officials immediately

Asean must get aid to Myanmar fast
Asean should encourage and apply reasonable pressure on the Myanmar government to allow relief operations to come in without having to go through Myanmar’s restrictive normal political or immigration channel.
The Star letter by DR TAN ENG BEE, Kajang.
THE devastating cyclone where the death toll is expected to reach 100,000 [...]

NASA PHOTOS OF MYANMAR CYCLONE NARGIS

Cyclone Nargis Floods Burma (Myanmar)
 
 
 
 
 
Flooding in Yangon, Burma (Myanmar)
                                                                       
 May 6, 2008
NASA SATELLITE CAPTURES IMAGE OF CYCLONE NARGIS FLOODING IN MYANMAR
The first cyclone of the 2008 season in the northern Indian Ocean was a devastating one for Myanmar (Burma). According to reports from Accuweather.com, Cyclone Nargis made landfall with sustained winds of 130 mph and [...]

How and where to make a contribution for Myanmar Cyclone disaster victims (in Burmese)

How and where to make a contribution for
Myanmar Cyclone disaster victims (in Burmese)

မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္ခံရေသာ ျမန္မာျပည္သူမ်ားကို ကူညီၾကပါရန္
ဆုိင္းကလံုးေၾကာင့္ ေသဆံုသူ ႏွစ္ေသာင္းႏွစ္ေထာင္ေက်ာ္ ရွိသည္ဟု စစ္အစုိးရ ေရဒီယို၏ ေနာက္ဆံုးသတင္း ေၾကညာသြားသည္။ ေသဆံုးသူ 100,000 ဦးေသဆံုးျပီး ၄၁၀၀၀ ေပ်ာက္ဆံုးေနသည္ကို အတည္ျပဳႏိုင္ျပီဟု ပါရွိသည္။

ေသဆံုးပ်က္စီးမႈ အေရအတြက္မွာ ထပ္ခါ ထပ္ခါ တက္လာေနဆဲ ျဖစ္သည္။မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္ခံရေသာ ျမန္မာျပည္သူမ်ားကို ကူညီႏိုင္ရန္အတြက္ ျပည္တြင္းမွ စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းရွင္မ်ားမွ စတင္စီစဥ္လ်က္ ေၾကာင္းသတင္း ရရိွပါသည္။ ၄င္းအစီအစဥ္တြင္ ျပည္ပေရာက္ျမန္မာ မြတ္စလင္မ္မ်ားမွ ပါ၀င္ လွဴဒါန္းၾကပါရန္ တိုက္တြန္းလိုက္ပါသည္။ အလွဴေငြေကာက္ခံရရိွမႈ အေပၚတြင္မူတည္၍ ပထမဦးစားေပး အေနျဖင့္ ရန္ကုန္တိုင္းမွ အဓိက မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္ေၾကာင့္ [...]

Myanmar backtracks on U.S. aid flight despite alleged 80,000 death in Labutta alone

US, UN plead Myanmar to let in aid as death toll soars

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The international community pleaded with Myanmar’s military rulers to let foreign aid workers and desperately needed relief supplies into the cyclone-crushed country.
 as a top US diplomat said the death toll from Cyclone Nargis could top 100,000.
Shari Villarosa, the US charge d’affaires [...]