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  • The Nation Mourns 15 May 2008 19:38 GMT
    ... the quake and one friend from South Africa, who was on the 23rd floor of ... glacier-like response to the cyclone devastation by Myanmar's junta makes China's disaster relief plan look ...

  • To protect sovereignty, or to protect lives? 15 May 2008 19:12 GMT
    ... alleviate suffering has struggled to win acceptance—and Myanmar will not be the place where it ... he spoke, diplomats from China, Vietnam, South Africa and Russia were mocking his idea that ...

  • Burma junta calls for rice planting help 15 May 2008 15:58 GMT
    ... Published: May 15 2008 15:24 | Last updated: ... delayed to May 24. Western countries and Burmese dissidents group have criticised the charter as ... late,” said Lord Malloch-Brown, Britain’s minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, who was in ...

  • Telecom: Nice to Have or Basic Necessity? 15 May 2008 15:55 GMT
    ... Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:40 AM PDT It's ... natural disasters in quick succession -- in Burma and the Sichuan earthquake in China -- they've ... 14 years experience living and working throughout Africa in countries including Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, ...

  • Junta pleas for rice planting help 15 May 2008 14:52 GMT
    ... Published: May 15 2008 15:24 | Last updated: ... delayed to May 24. Western countries and Burmese dissidents group have criticised the charter as ... late,” said Lord Malloch-Brown, Britain’s minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, who was in ...

  • Cyclone Damage to Myanmar Rice May Flare Prices 15 May 2008 13:10 GMT
    ... damaged 20 percent of rice paddy in Myanmar's five disaster areas, compared with 7 percent ... costs and supplies has sparked riots in Africa and toppled Haiti's government. Although Asia consumes ...

  • South Africa: Much Bigger Aid Effort Needed for Myanmar - Ban Ki-moon 15 May 2008 11:27 GMT
    ... country earlier this month. "Even though the Myanmar Government has shown some sense of flexibility, ... the affected area in the delta outside Yangon, the country's largest city. "It's perfectly obvious ...

  • A hard look at China's soft power 15 May 2008 11:24 GMT
    ... A hard look at China's soft power By David Isenberg ... regions - Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa - discussed, where China is most active, ... and China's oil exploration interests extend to Burma, Vietnam, and Malaysia. Imports of crude oil ...

  • A hard American look at China's soft power 15 May 2008 10:55 GMT
    ... A hard look at China's soft power By David Isenberg ... regions - Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa - discussed, where China is most active, ... and China's oil exploration interests extend to Burma, Vietnam, and Malaysia. Imports of crude oil ...

  • Losing our relevance in the world 15 May 2008 09:53 GMT
    ... concept rolled easily off Stephen Harper's tongue this ... and the horrors now gripping China and Burma. Campaigning in Halifax, the Prime Minister framed ... of today's trouble spots. Dig around in Africa, particularly in Darfur and Zimbabwe, and China ...

  • Examine the World Seafood (Frozen, Canned & Fresh) Markets 15 May 2008 09:51 GMT
    ... This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Seafood (Frozen, ... Vietnam II-37 Panama II-37 Morocco II-37 South Africa II-37 Sub-Saharan Africa II-37 Egypt II-37 Sales ... Country of Origin -Thailand, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Burma, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia (In Million ...

  • Africa: Strong Signs of Record Rice Production [press release] 15 May 2008 09:39 GMT
    ... Rice production in Asia, Africa and Latin America is forecast to reach ... Market Monitor. "But the cyclone disaster in Myanmar could well worsen our forecast," she added. ...

  • Why Can't the Hungry Eat Mangoes, Lizards And TVs? 15 May 2008 08:18 GMT
    ... out there - like the soldiers running Burma (or Myanmar). Last week, a cyclone battered the long-suffering ... declare several days of mourning. Not the Burmese junta. For starters, it went ahead with ...

  • Recent natural disasters may add to food crisis 15 May 2008 06:53 GMT
    ... Recent natural disasters may add to food crisis The ... deforestation will worsen the food crisis in Africa By Manelisi Dubase Members of the US ... deadly typhoon and the earthquake that hit Burma and China respectively, might add to the on-going ...

  • It's a Boy 15 May 2008 06:51 GMT
    ... The J@pan Inc. Newsletter Commentary on the Week's Business, ... supervise Indian and Allied workers building the Burmese Railroad. After the war he enjoyed a ... and rugby celebrities from the UK, South Africa, India, Australia and New Zealand will come ...

  • Prices for rice, Asia's essential food, skyrocketing 15 May 2008 04:44 GMT
    ... higher demand in the Middle East and Africa, itself caused by higher prices for other ... in Asia. In Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam rice provides 50 to ...

  • The world's security and stability 'are still fragile," says the Pope 15 May 2008 04:28 GMT
    ... caused by the continuing conflict. And I ask the Lord to grant that in Myanmar, with the support of the international community, a season of dialogue between the Government ...

  • Private sector wants free market 15 May 2008 00:55 GMT
    ... Government rice policies are misguided and have distorted ... countries are facing shortages. Aid experts say Burma is facing possible famine following the destruction of ... risk of food shortages was primarily in Africa, where rising fuel costs, natural disasters and ...

  • The Right Way to Pressure Beijing 14 May 2008 21:28 GMT
    ... Editor's note: Given the recent tragic events in ... Economic sanctions that worked against apartheid South Africa and maintain at least nominal pressure on ... least nominal pressure on countries such as Burma and Zimbabwe would be fruitless against the world’s ...

  • We must not shrink from our moral obligation to Burma 14 May 2008 18:35 GMT
    ... section. It was last updated at 00:06 on ... deliver aid to the victims of the Burmese cyclone. He was opposed by authoritarian regimes ... all when he said the crisis in Burma was no different from the deadly heatwave ...

  • Nobel Peace Prize: Al Gore's Nine Convenient Lies Beat Burmese Monks 14 May 2008 17:49 GMT
    ... Nobel Peace Prize: Al Gore’s Nine Convenient Lies Beat Burmese Monks There has been another election. A ... hospitals and treating the sick in West Africa. •German pacifist (1935) Carl von Ossietzky, who ...

  • Kazakhstan plans to simplify complex trading rules 14 May 2008 17:17 GMT
    ... Also in this Edition: Briefly colspan='3' class='pagetitleLineBlue'> The president ... coinciding with the first public lecture in Africa by world famous scientist Steven Hawking at ...

  • Yemen's accession to WTO discussed with World Bank 14 May 2008 17:17 GMT
    ... Also in this Edition: Briefly colspan='3' class='pagetitleLineBlue'> The president ... coinciding with the first public lecture in Africa by world famous scientist Steven Hawking at ...

  • World Bank launches billion dollar Africa power plant study 14 May 2008 17:17 GMT
    ... Also in this Edition: Briefly colspan='3' class='pagetitleLineBlue'> The president ... coinciding with the first public lecture in Africa by world famous scientist Steven Hawking at ...

  • We look forward to a peaceful presidential run-off" ' Dlamini-Zuma 14 May 2008 14:15 GMT
    ... debate on her budget vote, Dlamini-Zuma South Africa hoped that Zimbabweans would display the same ... rights violations in countries such as Sudan, Myanmar and Zimbabwe. "Given its own struggle against ...


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