SelectPlusDeath Toll in Myanmar Top 84,000Death Toll in Myanmar Top 84,000The Associated PressThe number of dead following that massive cyclone in Myanmar continues to rise. The country's military government announced on Tuesday that the death toll has now topped 84,000. (June 24)[Notes:ANCHOR ...
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SelectPlusUN Chief Goes to Myanmar to Press Junta Over AidUN Chief Goes to Myanmar to Press Junta Over AidThe Associated PressU.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon heads to Myanmar on Thursday for a major diplomatic challenge; persuading the ruling generals to let in a torrent of foreign assistance ...
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SRI KEMBANGAN, Malaysia, 11 July 2008 -- Being thousands of miles away from Myanmar did not stop Tristan Lim, a 13-year-old student of the Alice Smith School in Malaysia, from working his hardest to help raise funds for the survivors of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. In a show of support for the cycl...
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YANGON, Myanmar, 12 August 2008 -- UNICEF Myanmar has pledged to continue relief works until the lives of cyclone-affected families are fully restored. It has been over three months since the deadly Cyclone Nargis struck south west parts of Myanmar in early May. Relief efforts are now focusing on...
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NORTHERN SHAM STATE, Myanmar, 22 January 2009 Despite demanding tasks at home and on the family plantation, Ei Tume, 20, had a sound reason to be excused from her daily duties. As a health team arrived in Ho Waing village, part of Wein Kao Township, Ei Tume brought her two-year-old son, Ey Tun, ...
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YANGON, Myanmar, 28 August 2007 -- "I am not the only one who prefers to drink water from the tap of the blue bucket," says Ma Eh Wah, a mother of two children who lives in A Pyin The Phyu village in Yangon, the capital of Myanmar. The Happy Family Water System is part of an ongoing project star...
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