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Myanmar cyclone features and insight
02 Jun 2008
Source: AlertNet

The facts

BRIEFING-Myanmar cyclone at a glance

FACTBOX-Aid offers for Myanmar

FACTBOX-Major health risks facing Myanmar's cyclone survivors

FACTBOX-Asia's worst natural disasters since 2004 tsunami

The response

Myanmar monks, priests beat controls to give aid

Attend to living, not dead, after disasters - WHO

World Bank says can't give aid to Myanmar now

Why not just do air drops in Myanmar?

Myanmar's Buddhist monks fill cyclone aid void

Luxury Myanmar cruiser becomes floating hospital

Testing time as aid agencies rush to help Myanmar

Impromptu charities aid Myanmar cyclone survivors

The issues

Cyclone increases army looting on Myanmar borders

Myanmar cyclone victims had nowhere to escape -WMO

Weakening aid dollar squeezes Myanmar relief funds

MEDIAWATCH: Could Cyclone Nargis spell political change for Myanmar?

ANALYSIS-Crisis unlikely to spell disaster for Myanmar junta

Myanmar aid delays could spark unrest, agency warns

Of interest

Hunger trumps fear in cyclone-hit Myanmar delta

Myanmar film industry takes on cyclone disaster

Impassive Myanmar general keeps guard up

NEWSMAKER-Senior General Than Shwe, the "old man" of Myanmar

FEATURE-People in western Myanmar struggle with shortages

News-starved Burmese snap up grim cyclone videos

Cyclone beggars line roads of Myanmar delta

Cyclone victim prefers ruins over government camp

Blogs

AID WORKER DIARY: Let hope be last casualty

"The junta is guilty of a crime against humanity" - aid worker blog

Myanmar cyclone deaths could have been prevented

Aid agency highlights

Children and elderly now dying from dysentery, Church World Service says

Hungry season looms large in Myanmar

Action Against Hunger says nutritional crisis looming

Emergency Cyclone Aid vs. Human Rights In Myanmar

Mass Exodus Sets Stage for Public Health Crisis



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