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Australia to increase aid to Burma
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The West Online
- 5/12/2008
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Australia will increase aid to Burma and work with the United Nations in pressuring the junta to accept international help for cyclone victims. The announcement follows a phone discussion between Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon overnight. Mr Rudd also spoke with the ch
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UN seeks $187 million to aid cyclone survivors in Myanmar
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Business Week
- 5/12/2008
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The United Nations is seeking $187 million from donor nations to help cyclone survivors in Myanmar. U.N. officials said Friday the pledges are needed to provide food, water purification tablets and other supplies for at least 1.5 million people over the next three months. Kyaw Tint Swe, Myanmar's U.
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Burma Aid Is About Saving Lives, Not Politics, Rice Says
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US Embassy United Kingdom: London
- 5/12/2008
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â?¢ Briefing on U.S. Preparations for Relief Efforts for Burma Washington -- The death and destruction in Burma is not a matter of politics, it's a matter of saving lives, says Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. 'And it should be a matter that the government of Burma wants to see its people receiv
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IT didn't fail Myanmar during cyclone, people did
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Computerworld Malaysia
- 5/12/2008
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- The growing disaster in Myanmar caused by Cyclone Nargis could have been at least party avoided had people living in the path of the storm been warned, the head of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) said Thursday. The storm warning systems and cyclone watch centers in place were al
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Aid is on the way to devastated Myanmar, but so is heavy rain
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Rutland Herald
- 5/11/2008
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YANGON, Myanmar - More aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar - but so is the heavy rain.A week after Cyclone Nargis flattened low-lying villages and killed whole families at a time, the military junta finally agreed Friday to allow a U.S. cargo plane to bring in food and other supplies to the
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WFP Aid Flights to Proceed to Myanmar Tomorrow
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DiGiTAL50
- 5/11/2008
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ROME, May 9 PRNewswire-USNewswire â?? The following is a statement by Nancy E. Roman, Director of Public Policy and Communications of the World Food Program: 'The World Food Program has decided to send in two relief flights as planned tomorrow, while discussions continue with the Government of Myanm
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US official: 1 shipment to be allowed to Myanmar
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MyMotherLode.com
- 5/11/2008
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The governing military junta in Myanmar has agreed to allow a single U.S. cargo aircraft to bring in relief supplies for victims of a devastating cyclone, the Bush administration said Friday. White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said the United States welcomed the go-ahead to land a U.S. military C
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UN blasts Myanmar for visa policy on aid workers
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ABC 7
- 5/11/2008
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Myanmar's refusal to give visas to relief experts is 'unprecedented' in the history of humanitarian work, the United Nations charged Friday.A spokesman of the World Food Program says the organization has submitted 10 visa applications around the world, including six in Bangkok, Thailand, and none of
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Myanmar Seizes UN Aid Material
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WQOW
- 5/11/2008
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YANGON, Myanmar - U.N. officials say Myanmar's military government has confiscated all cyclone relief supplies, including food, that the U.N. has sent to the country. A U.N. spokesman says the seizure includes 38 tons of high-energy biscuits. The U.N. has suspended the delivery of aid to Myanmar unt
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Burma warned over cyclone delays
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PrisonPlanet
- 5/11/2008
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned of dire consequences if Burma continues to ban most foreign aid workers from its cyclone relief work. Speaking before the UN launched its $187m (£96m) appeal to help those hit by the cyclone, he said early action was needed to prevent catastrophe. Burma,
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