Clever Kunfu Master should give extra tuition classes to improve the unintelligent and retarded SPDC pupils

Clever Kunfu Master should give extra tuition classes
to improve the unintelligent and retarded SPDC pupils

 Different responses to disasters in Myanmar, China
By EDITH M. LEDERER
 
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Two natural disasters in tightly controlled Asian nations this month have produced two very different responses: Myanmar’s very slow reaction to Cyclone Nargis and China’s speedy response [...]

Myanmar Cyclone photo album from Reuter Part 4

Myanmar Cyclone photo album from Reuter Part 4
 

 

Men rebuild a damaged house in Yangon Pauk, Myanmar, May 12, 2008.  
REUTERS/Stringer

A woman waits with others for aid handouts near Danouk, Myanmar, May 12, 2008.  
REUTERS/Stringer

A boy smiles as he eats a piece of bread which he received from a doctor with a foreign non-governmental organization medical [...]

Had Cyclones Nargis struck the final nail in the SPDC’s coffin?

Had Cyclones Nargis struck the final nail in the SPDC’s coffin?
Extracts from the article of Dean Johns by May 14, 08 10:52am in the Malaysiakini
 
Some international observers are suggesting that the Burmese generals’ callous disregard of their people’s plight in the wake of could eventually prove the long-overdue death-blow to their calamitous regime.
Cyclone Nargis
 
Many Malaysians [...]

Why practice multiple standards in treating foreign migrants here?

Why practice multiple standards in treating foreign migrants here?
 
Malaysiakini news May 14, 08 6:00pm
 
My comment: It is very easy. To solve that Sabah problem and as a gesture of mercy to the Myanmars in West Malaysia, just transfer all the RELA to Sabah.

De facto law minister Zaid Ibrahim is the champion of Burmese Opposition. He should [...]

Myanmar refugees and Rela

Myanmar refugees and Rela
AI, Aliran: NO to ‘Rela department’
Malaysiakini
Two human rights watchdogs have come out strongly against attempts by the government to make the People Volunteer Corps (Rela) into a full fledged enforcement department soon.
Amnestry International Malaysia (AI) executive director Josef Roy Benedict said such a move would further legitimise and strengthen the powers of [...]

Champion of the refugees requested PM not to ignore Burmese refugees

Champion of the refugees requested PM not to ignore Burmese refugees  
 Malaysiakini news
May 14, 08 1:24pm
 Even as Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi pledges humanitarian aid to cyclone-ravaged Burma, he should not forget the Burmese refugees in Malaysia who face a number of serious problems. 
 
 
 

Migrant workers lobby group Tenaganita said the government, through people’s volunteer corps Rela, [...]

Cyclone Nargis photo gallery from YAHOO! Part 1

Cyclone Nargis photo gallery from YAHOO! Part 1
YAHOO!

Survivors of the cyclone Nargis eat a meal in Bogalay. Top foreign officials headed Wednesday to Myanmar to press the defiant junta to open the doors to a massive cyclone relief effort for two million increasingly desperate survivors(AFP/Khin Maung Win)

Rice is transported for a distribution for the [...]

After 12 days! Aid workers are allowed to enter Myanmar disaster zone

After 12 days!
Aid workers are allowed
to enter Myanmar disaster zone

YAHOO!  NEWS

YANGON, Myanmar – The first international aid official allowed into the cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy delta by Myanmar’s military leaders described towns rendered unrecognizable, thousands of survivors without shelter in heavy rains and local volunteers saving lives

Bad weather has contributed to the suffering of survivors and hampered [...]

Myanmar’s cyclone survivors beg for help

Myanmar’s cyclone survivors beg for help

By Aung Hla Tun
Wed May 14, 2008 12:32am EDT
YANGON (Reuters) – Desperation among Myanmar’s 1.5 million cyclone survivors mounted on Wednesday as the international aid flow remained a trickle and police barred foreign aid workers from worst-hit areas.
 
The United Nations and Western powers piled more pressure on the military regime [...]

Myanmar Cyclone photo album from Reuter Part 3

Myanmar Cyclone photo album from Reuter Part 3
 

 

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Eric Clamor (L) and Sergeant James McCarty, both assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, fill boxes with 5-gallon bags of drinking water while en route to the coast of Myanmar, May 11, 2008.
REUTERS/U.S. Navy photo by Gabriel S. Weber/Released

 
A mother sits with [...]

Myanmar Cyclone photo album from Reuter Part 2

Myanmar Cyclone photo album from Reuter Part 2
 

 

Cyclone Nargis survivors sit on a jetty that has been turned into a makeshift refugee centre in Myang Mya, in Irrawaddy Division, May 11, 2008. Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis headed out of Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta in search of food, water and medicine, but aid workers said on [...]

Myanmar Cyclone photo album from Reuter Part 1

Myanmar Cyclone photo album from Reuter Part 1

Track of cyclone Nargis striking Myanmar

The track of cyclone Nargis striking Myanmar is seen in this computer enhanced satellite image compiled by NASAs Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM ) between April 27 and May 4 and released May 6, 2008. The image is enhanced with multi-satellite precipitation analysis (MPA) [...]

U.S. admiral: Myanmar junta unconcerned of the cyclone victims’ plight

U.S. admiral: Myanmar junta unconcerned of the cyclone victims’ plight
 

After reading the following news, Michael Jackson’s, “They Don’t Care About Us lyrics”  keep on coming into my ears.
Yes, SPDC do not need Burmese people. They don’t need our votes. They know how to get the rubberstamp approval votes, by hook or by crook. SPDC don’t [...]

UN: children are 1/3 of dead in Myanmar cyclone

UN: children are 1/3 of dead in Myanmar cyclone
 

 
The Associated Press                                                                                         Published:May 14,2008
BANGKOK, Thailand: Children may account for a third of the victims killed in Myanmar’s cyclone and those who survived could now be at risk of human trafficking and sexual abuse in chaotic refugee camps, the U.N. and other agencies said.
The crowded, makeshift shelters [...]