Cyclone Nargis, according to the Wikipedia

Cyclone Nargis, according to the Wikipedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cyclone Nargis (JTWC designation: 01B, also known as Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Nargis) was a strong tropical cyclone that caused the deadliest natural disaster in the recorded history of Burma (also known as Myanmar). The cyclone made landfall in the country on May 2, 2008, causing [...]

PHOTOS: Devastating Aftermath of Cyclone Part 2

PHOTOS: Devastating Aftermath of Cyclone Part 2
ABC News

Flooded villages are seen in this aerial view near an airport in Yangon May 5, 2008, after Cyclone Nargis slammed into Myanmar’s main city Saturday, ripping off roofs, felling trees and raising fears of major casualties.
(Strringer/Reuters )

An aerial photo shows damage to rooftops of residential buildings in Yangon [...]

PHOTOS: Devastating Aftermath of Cyclone Part 1

Devastating Aftermath of Cyclone Part 1
 ABC News

At left, a survivor sits at his home, which was destroyed by Cyclone Nargis, near the town of Kyaiklat, southwest of Yangon, May 7, 2008.
(Strringer/Reuters )
       
Cyclone-affected families await relief goods under open skies after losing their homes in Labutta, a town in the Irrawaddy division of southwest Myanmar, in [...]

Don’t Shoot The Messenger!

Don’t Shoot The Messenger!
Safety of Journalists

By  Nesma Abd Elaziz
Covering news in hostile zones has become more dangerous today than in past decades. Journalists and correspondents are increasingly being targeted; they risk being kidnapped and killed (see the chart).  
 

 
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a non-profit organization based in New York, US, stated that [...]

NASA photos of Myanmar Cyclone Nargis 2

                       NASA’s Landsat Looks at Cyclone Nargis Floods in Burma
May 12, 2008

The city of Yangôn (also called Rangoon) in Burma, is tucked into a “V” between two rivers that empty into the Gulf of Martaban through a large estuary. When Cyclone Nargis passed over the city in the first week of May 2008, the entire [...]

George Clooney and Hollywood stars donate $250,000 for Myanmar cyclone victims

George Clooney and Hollywood stars
donate $250,000 for Myanmar cyclone victims
The Associated Press
Published: May 15, 2008
               
       
NEW YORK: The humanitarian organization founded by actor George Clooney and other “Ocean’s Thirteen” stars has donated US$250,000 to help children and families in Myanmar affected by Cyclone Nargis.
Not On Our Watch said it will provide an additional matching contribution of [...]

Myanmar’s ill wind

Myanmar’s ill wind
NST Online:EDITORIAL

THE toll of a cyclone like Nargis is measured not in the dead — though they may number in the tens of thousands — but the dying, in their hundreds of thousands. After the devastation of the storm itself comes the more insidious and much further-reaching effects of displacement, disease, malnutrition and [...]

U.N. says up to 2.5 million affected in Myanmar cyclone

U.N. says up to 2.5 million affected in Myanmar cyclone
 
Wed May 14, 2008                                     
By Aung Hla Tun
YANGON (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Wednesday up to 2.5 million people might have been affected by the Myanmar cyclone and proposed a high-level donors conference as the Myanmar junta again limited foreign aid.
 
The European Union’s top aid [...]

Amnesty International requests Malaysia to give MYANMAR REFUGEES temporary protection

Request to give MYANMAR REFUGEES temporary protection
 
NST Online » Letters 2008/05/14

By : K. SHAN, Amnesty International Malaysia
 

 
AMNESTY International Ma-laysia calls on the Malaysian government to review its policy on the non-recognition of Myanmar refugees in Malay-sia following the recent cyclone disaster and worsening humanitarian and human rights crises in Myanmar.

As an Asean member [...]