Myanmar state media stresses preventive measures against floods
Today, June 15, 2008, 4 hours ago
Myanmar state media urged the people in the country Sunday to take preventive measures against floods caused by torrential rains as it has entered the rainy season. The people should exercise a consta...

Rights urged for Myanmar migrants
Today, June 15, 2008, 5 hours ago
Like many others from Myanmar the fishermen have no employment rights, no protection and no contract.All of them work under a loose, verbal agreement under which their employers will pay them up to 6,...

John Pilger: The West betrays Burma
Today, June 15, 2008, 6 hours ago
When I phoned Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s home in Rangoon recently, I imagined the path to her door that looks down on Inya Lake. Through ragged palms, a trip-wire is visible,...

NASA data helps pinpoint impacted populations in the aftermath of a disaster
Today, June 15, 2008, 9 hours ago
Washington, June 15 : A set of NASA data products can describe the location of the exposed populations in the aftermath of a disaster, with prominent examples being the cyclone in Burma and the earthquake in China's Sichuan Province, where the technology was used.

Eleven killed in Myanmar landslides
Today, June 15, 2008, 13 hours ago
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - More misery for Myanmar. State media report at least 11 people are dead after their homes collapsed from landslides caused by heavy rain. A state-run newspaper reports several ...

Cyclone dead wash ashore on distant Myanmar beach
Today, June 15, 2008, 16 hours ago
Sunday, June 15, 2008 YANGON: About 300 bloated and decaying corpses, apparently victims of Cyclone Nargis, washed up on a beach in eastern Myanmar more than one month after the storm, a local offic...

Journalist helping cyclone victims arrested
Today, June 15, 2008, 22 hours ago
The crackdown by the Burmese military junta continues unabated, It arrested a journalist, who has been helping Cyclone Nargis  victims in Irrawaddy delta this morning, according to sources. Za...

Junta shuts down pro-opposition monastery
Today, June 15, 2008, 22 hours ago
The Burmese military junta authorities sealed a pro-opposition Buddhist monastery in Rangoon yesterday. The township chairman and security forces arrived at the Sasana Theikpan monastery compound o...

Intelligence officials assigned to keep eye on TCG
Today, June 15, 2008, 22 hours ago
The Burmese military junta has assigned over two dozen intelligence officials to accompany a joint mission of the Tripartite Core Group to access the damage in cyclone-affected Irrawaddy delta and Ran...

Myanmar to build cyclone shelters in 500 villages
Today, June 15, 2008, 22 hours ago
Yangon, June 14 (Xinhua) Myanmar would build temporary cyclone relief shelters in 500 villages in the country's disaster-prone areas as part of a quick response system to natural calamities, a media report said Saturday.

Burmese refugees fill meatpacking jobs
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 7:53:10 PM
CACTUS, Texas (AP) - Foreign-born workers have been the mainstay for decades at a meatpacking plant in the small Panhandle town of Cactus. When the Swift and Company plant opened in 1974, Vietnamese ...
Obstacles Force Donors to Abandon the Delta
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 7:39:32 PM
The abbot is not alone in his concern about the declining number of private donors. Other shelters for displaced storm victims are also facing an increasingly precarious situation, now that the flow o...

Foreign Doctors Leave Cyclone-hit Burma
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 6:32:05 PM
Foreign doctors have started leaving cyclone-hit Burma as the junta has closed down many relief camps in the affected areas, a senior Thai health ministry official said on Friday.The military governme...

11 killed in landslide in northern part of Myanmar
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 6:04:15 PM
A total of 11 people were killed in a landslide in Myanmar's northern part of Mogok, the state-run newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Saturday. The landslide caused by midnight torrential rain on...

UN says Myanmar farmers need fuel for planting
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 8:05:30 AM
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar urgently needs diesel fuel to run the rice-tilling machines that are replacing water buffalo killed by Cyclone Nargis in the Irrawaddy delta, a senior U.N. official sai...

Burma landslide kills dozen
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 6:07:50 AM
Yangon - Torrential rains caused a landslide that killed 12 miners in Mogok, military-ruled Myanmar's "Valley of Rubies" gem zone, a source with relatives living in the area said on Friday. "At lea...

Foreign doctors leave cyclone hit Myanmar
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 5:00:55 AM
June 13, 2008, 20:45 Foreign doctors have started leaving cyclone hit Myanmar as the junta has closed down many relief camps in the affected areas, a senior Thai health ministry official said today. ...

Burma - Youths arrested for protesting Aung San Suu Kyi
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 4:49:35 AM
(Mizzima/IFEX) - Fifteen youth members of the opposition political party, the National League for Democracy, arrested for marching to party leader Aung San Suu Kyi's residence, were released from poli...

Mogok ruby city landslide kills 22, eight missing
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 4:44:49 AM
Incessant heavy rain since early morning of Thursday triggered landslides in Burma’s ruby city killing 22 people. Eight people are missing, according to residents.
Storm rumors create panic in Moulmein – Violet Cho
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 4:44:48 AM
A storm warning system launched by the Burmese army in Burma's Mon State has caused panic among local people, who believe it heralds another catastrophe on the scale of Burma's Cyclone Nargis.

US cannot be trusted: junta
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 4:44:46 AM
As individuals and aid agencies around the world dig into their pockets for funds to help Burma's cyclone victims, the country’s ruling junta on Friday said that such assistance from the United ...

Bogalay schools told to reopen despite setbacks – Aye Nai
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 4:44:46 AM
Local military officers in Bogalay township, Irrawaddy division, have been putting pressure on local schools to reopen despite the damage wrought by Cyclone Nargis, a township resident said.

In Myanmar, a Times reporter worked in secret to cover the story
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 4:44:45 AM
From the far side of a murky brown river, the only moving thing visible on the ravaged landscape was a tattered maroon cloth, fluttering listlessly atop a tree stripped of its branches. Two Buddhist ...

World day against child labor – Sai Slip
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 4:44:44 AM
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and Thai authorities organized activities on Thursday to promote World Day Against Child Labour in the border provinces of Chiang Rai and Tak.

Cyclone nargis hits Burmese economy – Phanida
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 4:44:44 AM
Economists and merchants feel that devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis will slow down Burma’s economy. The cyclone caused unprecedented damage in major rice and fishery producing Irrawaddy Div...

Farmers charged admin fees to receive loans – Aye Nai
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 4:44:43 AM
Farmers in Tharawaddy township, Bago division, have been charged up to 3000 kyat in administrative fees in order to receive their state agricultural loans, local residents said.

All members should be included in ASEAN human rights body
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 4:44:43 AM
Most participants from the two-day workshop of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) said here on Friday that all the 10-members, including Myanmar, should be included in a future human r...

Grant full access to international community: Laura Bush – Lalit K Jha
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 4:44:41 AM
US first lady Laura Bush on Thursday urged the Burmese military junta to allow international aid workers full access to the Irrawaddy delta to carry out humanitarian relief work unhindered.

Burma gives ‘cronies’ slice of storm relief – Glenn Kessler
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 4:44:40 AM
Some of the most notorious business executives in Burma, including Tay Za and Steven Law, also known as Tun Myint Naing, were given control of “reconstru ction and relief” in critical towns...

Burma still refuses aid
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 4:44:39 AM
The United States is committed to bringing relief assistance to the victims of Cyclone Nargis. To date, the U.S. has provided more than thirty-five million dollars in humanitarian assistance to the pe...

New rules further delay relief
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 4:44:38 AM
New Burmese government guidelines on humanitarian agencies will further hamper the delivery of aid to the victims of Cyclone Nargis, Human Rights Watch said today.

More delays in Burma cyclone aid relief
Yesterday, June 14, 2008, 12:10:29 AM
Bangkok - New guidelines adopted by Myanmar's ruling generals are further delaying emergency efforts to deliver aid to regions ravaged by the cyclone, human rights experts said on Thursday. The rul...