Posts Tagged ‘myanmar’

Amnesty International Report 2008

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Amenesty also codemened US for failing to provide human rights. The United States is shirking its duty to provide the world with moral leadership and China is letting its business interests trump human rights concerns in Myanmar and Sudan, a human rights group said Wednesday. Amnesty International’s annual report on the state of the world’s [...]

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Monterey To Use Biodiesel In Some Trucks (KSBW Salinas)

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

The death toll from the weekend cyclone in Myanmar continued to rise Tuesday. State-run radio in the country said the death toll from the storm stands at more than 22,000. Government officials said many villages were flattened and a million people could be left homeless because of the storm. The United Nations recovery teams are [...]

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Myanmar Cyclone Death Toll Could Top 100000: US Diplomat

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

The death toll from the Myanmar cyclone could top 100,000, the top US diplomat in the country said Wednesday, as thousands of shell-shocked survivors emerged from the flood waters, desperate for food. “There may well be over 100,000 deaths in the delta area,” Shari Villarosa, the US charge d’affaires in Yangon, told reporters in Washington [...]

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Myanmar Devastated By Cyclone - At Least 22000 Dead

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

The casualty count has been rising quickly as authorities reach hard-hit islands and villages in the Irrawaddy delta, the countrys major rice-producing region, which bore the brunt of Cyclone Nargiss 120-mile-per hour winds. Myanmar Foreign Minister told diplomats in Yangonclass=xref> Monday that more than 10,000 people may have died when Cyclone Nargis struck Saturday. No [...]

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Irrawaddy Delta

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

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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CIA Factbook

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

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Death Toll Passes 22000 In Myanmar Cyclone

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Myanmars state-owned television and radio reported that 4,000 people died in the storm which struck Myanmar on Saturday. The UN says that hundreds of thousands of people have been affected. Cyclone Nargis caused serious damage to CAREs offices in Yangon, although none of CAREs staff in the office were hurt. However, CARE has resources in [...]

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Map Of Burma

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Graphic Maps - Map of Myanmar (Burma) - Graphic Maps provides a country profile plus map of most of the worlds countries. Japan invades and occupies Burma in 1942 and establishes from 1943 until 1945 the puppet state Republic of Burma, lead by Burmese nationalists. If you would like to recommend this Burma map page [...]

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Greatest Living American, Tiffany May, Cyclone,

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

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CIA Factbook

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

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Burma Cyclone Death Toll: 10000 Killed In Town Of Bogalay

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

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 [...]

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Rangoon Cyclone

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

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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Miami Marine Stadium

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

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Stars Line Up To Help After Myanmar Burma Cyclone

Monday, May 5th, 2008

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Myanmar Anti-government Demonstration (Saffron Revolution)

Monday, May 5th, 2008

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Myanmar Map

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

S prime minister, Abdullah Badawi, was asked at a press conference whether Australia was part of Asia as its government at the time very much wanted to be. Cuba appealed to the co sponsors of the text to think more deeply about the way in which they presented the draft, which was an intrusion into [...]

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How Burma Sold Us The Bazaar.

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

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 [...]

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