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Ko Ohn Kyaw, an Organizing Committee member of the National League for Democracy of Rangoon Division, Dawbon Township was bludgeoned to death in the Insein prison after the prison precincts caught fire when cyclone Nargis lashed Burma. Ko Ohn Kyaw was acc...
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At least seven helicopters left Moscow airbase this morning carrying relief material for Burmese cyclone victims.
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New Delhi - Two more Indian aircrafts on Wednesday landed with medicines and tents to Cyclone-hit Burma's former capital city of Rangoon as a follow up supply of relief after India has dispatch two naval ships on Monday.
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New Delhi – The intolerable smell of dead humans and cattle was still spreading as corpses lay uncollected in Kwun Gyan Kone Township in western Rangoon division, an eyewitness said.
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New Delhi – Relief supplies continued flowing into Burma, but international aid agencies could not reach the hardest-hit areas because of massive logistical problems.
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New Delhi - Portions of the roof of the house of Noble Peace Laureate and pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on University Avenue in Rangoon's Bahan Township has been damaged by the killer cyclone that lashed Burma during the weekend.
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Chiang Mai – Over 20 countries have pledge aid of more than USD 40 million for victims of the tropical cyclone Nargis in Burma, but most of these countries are still waiting for a response from the junta.
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Rangoon – A veteran teacher said she was advised by the head of the high school where she teaches to vote 'yes' during the referendum. Otherwise, she would be sent to a remote school or be sacked from her post.
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New Delhi - Rangoon-based weekly journals closed down after Cyclone Nargis swept through the city and caused widespread power outages. Only a few news journals with generators continued to operate.
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Although aid supplies are trickling into Burma and clean-up work has begun, many people in the country's commercial centre, Rangoon, are beginning to vent their anger at the junta's failure to respond quickly to the devastating impact of the cyclone.
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Only a little over six months ago there seemed a real possibility that hope for a peaceful change in Burma was on the horizon. That ended in ugly scenes with attacks on Buddhist institutions and revered monks by the military junta of Burma.
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The Burma News International (BNI) opinion survey is the most comprehensive and statistically representative poll opinion conducted in Myanmar on reactions relating to the 2008, May 10 Referendum. It was conducted to gauge awareness of the constitutional ...
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At least ten bodies of those believed to have died because of the cyclone, have been found on the bank of the Hlaing River in Rangoon, an eyewitness told Mizzima.
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Many areas in Rangoon are pitch dark at nights, including areas around Sule Pagoda which is unusually not lit. Without a torch it is dangerous to walk on the streets, as jagged edges of uprooted trees protrude into sidewalks and streets at odd angles. Whi...
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Nam Davies, Mizzima reporter, interviewed a Chin woman victim of the cyclone taking shelter at the 'Full Gospel' church in Insein, Rangoon. She lost her home in the tropical cyclone Nargis which devastated Burma with wind speeds of over 120 mph. Here is t...
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Chiang Mai – The Burmese military junta deported a BBC reporter from the Rangoon airport yesterday. The British national Mr. Andrew William Fardae arrived in the Thai Airways International at Rangoon airport in May 5 afternoon but was deported from the ...
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Rangoon: I am in my apartment overlooking an area of about one square kilometer. Until Friday night it was covered with trees. Now all I see is a scene of utter devastation. Hundreds of trees are uprooted, houses smashed by falling trees and roofs gone wi...
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A secret circular by the junta has directed all security agencies to be on high alert, monitor international organizations and disallow their free movement until May 10, the scheduled date for the referendum.
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Residents across Rangoon faced a shortage of rice and other goods Tuesday while being forced to pay more than twice the normal prices.
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New Delhi - International aid agencies said today they have been given the green light to distribute food and supplies to cyclone-stricken areas in Burma. But they are still waiting for permission to send in foreign disaster-relief experts.
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