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  • Myanmar (Burma): Greater funding needed to meet most critical needs 30 Nov 2009 18:37 GMT
    ... Myanmar (Burma): Greater funding needed to meet most critical needs ... babies are still delivered at home, the UN has estimated that a further $483m is ...

  • Myanmar, UNICEF jointly mark universal children's day in Yangon 27 Nov 2009 10:12 GMT
    ... Myanmar and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) held a joint ceremony ... the challenges in a concerted manner. The UN agreement on children's rights was signed in ...

  • Useless UN and ILO rituals bring no change, Burmese dissidents says 24 Nov 2009 14:32 GMT
    ... UN and ILO rituals bring no change, Burmese dissidents says Tint Swe, a member of ... impunity to country’s junta. The people of Burma are under no illusions. New Delhi (AsiaNews) ... For Tint Swe, the latest criticism of Myanmar by UN agencies is a useless exercise. ...

  • MYANMAR INDIA Useless UN and ILO rituals bring no change, Burmese dissidents says 24 Nov 2009 17:11 GMT
    ... For Tint Swe, the latest criticism of Myanmar by UN agencies is a useless exercise. ... National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB) set up by Burmese refugees who fled the country after the ...

  • Methamphetamine use rapidly' rising in Burma 27 Nov 2009 12:40 GMT
    ... agency show that use of methamphetamine in Burma is on the rise, and is having ... levels”. The consequence of the boom in Burmese-produced narcotics has over the last decade led ... notes that “the changing political situation in Myanmar [Burma] in 2009 might serve as a ...

  • Japan calls for Burma refugee support 24 Nov 2009 06:16 GMT
    ... Nov 24, 2009 (DVB)–The Japanese prime minister has called ... assist in the resettlement to Japan of Burmese refugees currently in camps along the Thai-Burma border. Some 130,000 Burmese nationals, the majority ...

  • Australian aid to Burma eyed with caution 24 Nov 2009 07:34 GMT
    ... Australian aid to Burma eyed with caution Nov 24, 2009 (DVB)–Experts ... that given the track record [of the Burmese government regarding aid], one can’t be confident ... detail. Does that money go to the Myanmar Maternal Health and Women’s Association, which is ...

  • British MPs allege war crimes in Burma 27 Nov 2009 11:17 GMT
    ... British MPs allege war crimes in Burma Nov 27, 2009 (DVB)–A group of high ... International Labour Organisation (ILO) in referring the Burmese junta to the International Court of Justice ...

  • Myanmar Refugees Grateful For Refuge In Palau 1 Dec 2009 02:52 GMT
    ... Center for Pacific Islands Studies/University of Hawai‘i MYANMAR REFUGEES GRATEFUL FOR REFUGE IN PALAU By ... Palau has become a sanctuary to 11 Burmese who fled Myanmar to avoid persecution of ... provided to each of them by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Toribiong offered to ...

  • Myanmar rebels cashing in illegal drugs stocks: UN 26 Nov 2009 20:30 GMT
    ... AFP/File – Representative of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Gary ... of cashing (in) of the products within Myanmar, in anticipation of exposure of those products ... that do not want to join the Burmese security forces. The junta has also vowed ...

  • Washington's Myanmar initiative falters 1 Dec 2009 10:10 GMT
    ... attempts by the United States to coax Myanmar's reclusive ruling generals to open talks with ... to push for democratic change in the military-run and impoverished country. Senior US diplomats have ... the regime, including those led by the United Nations, have come undone. Far too often, the ...

  • Myanmar cyclone survivors still need shelter - U.N. 25 Nov 2009 16:21 GMT
    ... 18 months after Cyclone Nargis tore into Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta, killing at least 140,000, the United Nations said on Wednesday. International donors pledged a ... Nations says 178,000 families in the former Burma need help with shelter. Most of those families ...

  • Advisory - Burma at a Watershed: Rethinking Western Policy Towards Burma 26 Nov 2009 18:16 GMT
    ... OTTAWA, Nov. 26 /CNW Telbec/ - Western policy towards Burma over the past 20 years has failed. Economic ... democratic change. Renowned writer, historian, and former United Nations official Thant Myint-U will be in Ottawa ...

  • Myanmar: Rats gnaw at cyclone recovery hopes 25 Nov 2009 16:31 GMT
    ... more than 2.5 million rats have been exterminated in the Ayeyarwady Delta by the Myanmar Agriculture Service, with support from the FAO and other community, NGO and UN partners, the FAO says. Despite the culling efforts, there are probably three to four times ...

  • EU envoy sees progress in Burma 30 Nov 2009 06:57 GMT
    ... breakthrough in the political stalemate in military-ruled Burma, including the possibility of talks with the junta, ... window of opportunity with regards to the Myanmar [Burma] dossier seems to be opening up ... the country was known as Burma. A UN commission issued a resolution this month expressing ...


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