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Channel NewsAsia  | May 11, 2008

BANGKOK - The UN food agency said Saturday that Myanmar's military regime had released a plane-load of cyclone aid into its custody, but that two previous shipments remained impounded. 'The supplies are in our hands, they've been handed over to us,' said Marcus Prior, a spokesman for the World Food ...
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