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The authorities of two related provinces, Can Tho and An Giang, have worked with the Transport Ministry and the Cambodian government on this project. Tran Thanh Man, Chairman of Can Tho city, said this road will be 230km in length, including 110km from Can Tho to the Vietnam-Cambodia border in An Giang province. The remaining [...]

The official says the agency had “no choice” but to suspend further aid shipments to the devastated Southeast Asian nation until the matter is resolved. WFP spokesman Paul Risley says all the food aid and equipment that the relief agency managed to get in has been confiscated. That includes 38 tons of high-energy biscuits. Risley [...]

Back in the early sixties when I served as a pfc in a Pioneer Battalion (Combat Engineers to you Army guys) we were taught a basic slump test for soil stability/composition. I don’t know squat about ceeement - maybe the base engineers or the air wing engineers did that stuff. Waaay too many of Clausewitz’s [...]

His gray, sagging coveralls hung on a nail by the garage door, and as far as I could tell he never washed them. My grandpas friend and next door neighbor, Bill, wore neatly pressed white coveralls to mow the lawn, and it amazed me to no end that they never turned green, never got stained. [...]

State radio reported Saturdays vote on a draft constitution would be delayed until May 24 in 40 townships around Yangon and seven in the Irrawaddy delta, which bore the brunt of the killer storm. Kyaw Hsan confirmed at a news conference that some 4000 people had died in Yangon and the low-lying Irrawaddy delta region. [...]

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Burma has declared Irrawaddy and four other regions, including the main city Rangoon, to be disaster areas. Rangoon has been without power and water, its streets full of debris. Winds of about 190km/h (120mph) battered the Irrawaddy, Rangoon, Bago, Karen and Mon regions. Cyclone Nargis has since moved towards Thailand where storm warnings have been [...]

The international community has pledged to help the Southeast Asian nation after a cyclone slammed into its Irrawaddy delta on the weekend. WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush has called on Myanmar’s military junta to allow the United States to help with disaster assistance after a devastating cyclone. But he said that in order to do [...]

There was a news item on Sky News about the Rangoon (Burma or Myanmar) cyclone in an area known as the Burma rice bowl. The news reader said that there are food and water shortages and about 10,000 people have died so far. On an adjacent TV screen there was an advert for new Pedigree [...]

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As many as 90,000 people were reported to have been left homeless on the island. Residents awoke to scenes of devastation after the cyclone bore through swathes of southern Burma, uprooting trees, pummelling buildings and ripping up power lines. Authorities have declared disaster zones in the five states and the regions of Rangoon, Ayeyawaddy, Bago, [...]

Then I remembered the brouhaha over Berkshire holding, PacifiCorp., which does operate the long-standing dams in question. Or at least Buffett is aware of where the world is heading in terms of regulation and demand. He cancelled six proposed coal plants last year, without fanfare. Tama artikkeli kasittelee valtiota. Sanan Burma muita merkityksia on tasmennyssivulla [...]

So, heres how the story apparently goes. Back in the days, around the time when we had just gotten our independence, there were quite a few people from the region who were working in plantations in Burma. There was a sizeable working population that was from India, and life went on. Quite a few countries [...]