WFP to Stop Relief Flights to Burma Next Month
By SAW YAN NAING
The UN’s World Food Programme will stop its relief flights to Burma next month, leaving aid organizations to find their own means of ferrying supplies into the country.
Burma’s Disposable Soldiers
By MIN LWIN
For rank-and-file members of Burma’s 400,000-strong armed forces, injury often means a freefall into poverty. |
Burmese Humor Survived the Storm
By THE IRRAWADDY
About 400 works by 70 cartoonists are on show at the Lawkanat gallery in an exhibition titled “Wake from the Storm.” |
US Calls Burma's Promise of Democracy a 'Mockery'
By JIM GOMEZ / AP WRITER
The United States blasted the Burmese junta's oft-repeated promise to democratize as a "kind of mockery", while Asia-Pacific countries urged the generals to take bolder steps to meet international demands. |
Cyclone Victims Harness Rainwater to Survive
By IRIN
Viewed as a curse by those who lost their homes and loved ones to Cyclone Nargis, heavy rain in recent weeks is proving a savior of sorts to thousands of cyclone survivors in need of safe drinking water. “When it rains, I feel it is a blessing,” a woman said. |
UN Wants ‘Tangible Progress’ in Burma
By LALIT K JHA / UNITED NATIONS
The UN special envoy to Burma and the international community will seek concrete progress during discussions with the military government next month. |
Relief Must Focus on Remote Areas: Holmes
By SAW YAN NAING
The United Nations’ top humanitarian relief official has called for more assistance to go to people in remote areas of Burma’s cyclone-stricken Irrawaddy delta. |
Rice Urges Asean to Push Burma Reform
By SUE PLEMMING / REUTERS WRITER
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Asean to put more pressure on Burma's junta to improve human rights and adopt democratic reforms. |
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UN Security Council to Discuss Burma |
| By LALIT K JHA / UNITED NATIONS |
| The US plans to push for a more “focused” approach on Burma’s political track in a UN Security Council meeting on Thursday. |
Burma Opposes Asean Investigative Powers |
| By JIM GOMEZ / AP WRITER |
| Burma's junta has indicated it will oppose any effort to give a Southeast Asian human rights body the power to monitor or investigate rights violations in the region. |
UN Says Burma Faces 'Second Emergency' |
| By VIJAY JOSHI / AP WRITER |
| Survivors of Burma's Cyclone Nargis face a "second emergency" unless relief efforts receive an influx of US $1 billion in international aid over the next three years, according to the first full assessment of the disaster. |
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