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The Burmese military junta is allowing entry to aid workers into the cyclone devastated areas at snail's pace. As a result a huge number of survivors continue to be deprived off any kind of support. This despite the regime's recent permission allowing acc...
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Cyclone Nargis lashed Burma almost four weeks ago and it is already too late for some survivors. Some have died from lack of emergency aid. With the monsoons approaching, the United Nations' relief experts are racing against time to save the rest of...
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The Myanmar Teleport, one of the country's Internet Service Providers (ISPs) has banned more proxy sites in a fresh move following a technically upgraded report, users in Rangoon said.
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Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the UN World Food Program is making a one day visit to Cyclone ravaged Burma on Friday.
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Farmers in the Irrawaddy delta said lives have been turned upside down by the killer Cyclone Nargis and they are at a loss to figure out where to pick up the thread and go back to cultivation.
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Private donors were allowed free access to cyclone victims by the Burmese military junta on Wednesday, according to a donor who made a visit.
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Burma's censorship board, infamous for its stranglehold on the media, has denied permission to Rangoon based weekly journals from publishing stories on the cyclone devastation. In depth stories focussing on cyclone devastated Irrawaddy delta were cut by t...
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A French naval ship carrying relief supplies for cyclone victims in Burma arrived in Thailand's Phukhet town after Burmese authorities denied it access to the Irrawaddy delta, diplomatic sources in Bangkok said.
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Burma's military junta's second leader Vice Senior General Maung Aye will tour the Cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy delta on Friday, a source in the military establishment said.
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Even as the international community focuses on relief operations in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, forgotten political prisoners are suffering more torture and persecution in prisons, the 'Association of Assistance to Political Prisoners in Burma' (AAPP...
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The Burmese military junta continues to crack down on the Opposition arresting about 30 youth activists on Tuesday evening.
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The extension of democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest invited widespread criticism of the Burmese military junta on Wednesday amidst efforts by the international community in persuading the generals to allow access to cyclone hit regions.
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The lives of many survivors are at stake and many are dying because of the slow pace at which Burma's military rulers are allowing relief supplies and aid workers to reach cyclone-hit regions, campaigners and local aid workers said.
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Burma's prominent ethnic political leader, Pu Cin Sian Thang's health is continuing to deteriorate after he sustained rib and shoulder injuries in early May.
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Defying demands of the international community and its own people to free pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Burma's military rulers on Tuesday extended her detention period, a government source said.
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Reopening of schools in seven townships of cyclone devastated Irrawaddy division has been postponed by a month, authorities on Tuesday announced.
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He has lost his parents, home and friends to the killer Cyclone Nargis yet Soe Thu, an 18 year old boy said he has not given up hope of going to school.
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About 70 vehicles were impounded on Sunday when they returned from the Irrawaddy Delta after donating relief material to cyclone victims....
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The Burmese military junta authorities have deployed security personnel in large numbers near the National League for Democracy (NLD) party headquarters in Rangoon.
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Over a dozen youth members of the opposition were arrested by Burmese police on Tuesday, a party spokesperson told Mizzima.
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