Preventing disease outbreaks is ‘race against time’ for cyclone victims in Myanmar

Preventing disease outbreaks is ‘race against time’ for cyclone victims in Myanmar
The Associated Press

BANGKOK, Thailand: Getting supplies to survivors of a brutal cyclone in Myanmar is now a “race against time” to prevent a disease disaster, as many impoverished victims continue to await help a week after the storm, experts warned Saturday.
Reports of diarrhea and skin problems [...]

Myanmar’s junta continues with referendum despite millions affected by cyclone

Myanmar’s junta continues with referendum
despite millions affected by cyclone
The Gazette,

Aileen McCabe, Asia Correspondent, Canwest News Service
BANGKOK – As if the junta’s grudging response to Cyclone Nargis isn’t mind boggling enough, Myanmar’s generals diverted manpower from the aid effort Saturday to oversee a referendum on a new constitution.
The xenophobic regime clearly felt getting the vote out [...]

More photos of Myanmar Cyclone victims

 More photos of Myanmar Cyclone victims

This photo taken on May 3, 2008 and received May 6, 2008 shows a monk walking past branches covering the road after being blown down by winds from Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar’s largest city Yangon. More than 15,000 people died after the powerful cyclone swept across Myanmar last weekend, including [...]

Weekly news roundup of Myanmar Cyclone

Weekly news roundup of Myanmar Cyclone
From MSNBC

Myanmar Red Cross volunteers load water storage containers onto a truck Friday. Families can use these along with water purification tablets to have clean drinking water.

Crisis casts a pall over Myanmar vote

Experts: Junta cannot run aid effort alone

Fisherman’s 28 relatives ‘washed away’

Cyclone Nargis was Asia’s ‘perfect storm’

Climate change threatens [...]

Appeal to International Leaders: Please show mercy by granting AMNESTY to Myanmars in your countries

Appeal to International Leaders:
Please show mercy by granting AMNESTY
to  Myanmars in your countries
Please read the following cruel, inconsiderate action in the Stars Online news, “Foreigners nabbed for violating work permit” by  V.P. SUJATA on Friday May 9, 2008  
 
PUTRAJAYA: Ninety-eight foreigners working in two factories in Port Klang have been arrested for violating their work permits.
The [...]

Tzu-Chi, AirAsia, Rohingyas and Fujifilm offer help for Myanmar Cyclone victims

Tzu-Chi, AirAsia, Rohingyas and Fujifilm offer help for Myanmar Cyclone victims
(1) Rohingyas: Help our countrymen
Saturday May 10, 2008
JOHOR BARU: They may be hard-pressed for money, but Myanmar refugees want to come forward to help their compatriots back home after the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis.
Myanmar Ethnic Rohingyas Human Rights Organisation Malaysia president Zafar Ahmad Mohd [...]

Bravo! Notorious Rela, carryon without even knowing your job

Bravo! Notorious Rela, carryon without even knowing your job
 
Do what ever you like. It is OK as long as you could continue intimidating all the foreigners. All your superiors are ever ready to help and support you.
 
Star Newspaper News_ “Pakistan embassy man held by Rela personnel”
PETALING JAYA: A Pakistan embassy staff was allegedly [...]

Official: Myanmar accepts US humanitarian aid

Official: Myanmar accepts US humanitarian aid

 YANGON, May 9 (Xinhua) — Myanmar has accepted an offer of the United States to send humanitarian aid to the country’s cyclone victims, state radio reported Friday in a night broadcast.
    Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister U Kyaw Thu gave the assurance Friday to the Charge d’affaires of the United States Shari [...]

The case for invading Myanmar

The case for invading Myanmar

By Shawn W Crispin
BANGKOK – With United States warships and air force planes at the ready, and over 1 million of Myanmar’s citizens left bedraggled, homeless and susceptible to water-borne diseases by Cyclone Nagris, the natural disaster presents an opportunity in crisis for the US.
A unilateral – and potentially United Nations-approved [...]

U.N. to Resume Aid Shipments to Myanmar

U.N. to Resume Aid Shipments to Myanmar

NPR.org, May 9, 2008 · The United Nations may resume some aid flights to cyclone-stricken Myanmar Saturday. Earlier Friday, the body’s food program ceased its shipments after Myanmar’s ruling junta seized supplies destined for the estimated 1.5 million people affected by the storm.

Residents gather to await a helicopter with [...]

Hunger, disease — and snakes — stalk Myanmar survivors

Hunger, disease — and snakes –
stalk Myanmar survivors

BANGKOK (AFP) — Desperate survivors of the Myanmar cyclone are facing serious health worries one week after the disaster, with everything from disease to snake bites putting some 1.5 million people at risk, aid groups say.

Those still alive are battling myriad problems — dirty water, no food and [...]

Latest photos from Myanmar Cyclone

 Latest photos from Myanmar Cyclone

Using basic hand tools, two men in Yangon, like many Myanmar residents, are performing much of the cleanup work themselves for lack of foreign or domestic assistance.

Myanmar residents walk past houses destroyed by Cyclone Nargis in Bogalay, Myanmar.
May 9, 2008

Women and children get by with makeshift bathing arrangements on the streets [...]