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  • UN plans new plea on aid for Burma 16 May 2008 10:31 GMT
    ... section. It was last updated at 00:29 on ... on May 16 2008. Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, plans to dispatch his humanitarian ... ways to break the logjam. He met Thailand's foreign minister, Noppadol Pattama, and prime minister, Samak ...

  • Seized hash likely Canada bound 16 May 2008 10:29 GMT
    ... China and Vietnam are increasingly used as conduits, UN drug ... suspects - five citizens of China or Indonesia - applied at the end of April ...

  • Junta warns against hoarding as crisis in Myanmar grows 16 May 2008 10:28 GMT
    ... Children reach for free bananas from a local ... cyclone victims." Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, ... relief workers from India, China, Bangladesh and Thailand, which have rarely criticized Myanmar’s democracy record. Even ...

  • Trying to get off the UN's terrorist list described as 'Kafkaesque' 16 May 2008 10:28 GMT
    ... Yet few of the 370 individuals and 110 organizations on ... on the list. But other countries, including Malaysia and India, also seem to have made ... delivered by Canada's diplomatic mission to the United Nations on Dec. 10. Eleven days later, it ...

  • SVG Capital - Interim Management Statement 16 May 2008 10:13 GMT
    ... > > > SVG Capital PLC - Interim Management Statement SVG ... EUR750 million (£589.6 million) bank facility remains un-drawn [2]. At 30 April 2008, SVG Capital ... Holdings Limited, which is listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. The value of this realisation for ...

  • My opinion Charles Krauthammer : Israel's 60th anniversary: Story of redemption, return after 2000 years 16 May 2008 10:12 GMT
    ... Before sending Lewis and Clark west, Thomas Jefferson dispatched ... today. Six months before Israel's birth, the United Nations had decided by a two-thirds majority that ... In American terms, it would take thirty-five Vietnam memorials to encompass such a monumental loss of ...

  • A battle for Burma's soul 16 May 2008 10:12 GMT
    ... Response to killer cyclone highlights the animosity between ... country's military and Buddhist clergy Mae Sot, Thailand–The military and the Buddhist clergy have long ... eventually cracked down on the demonstrations. The United Nations said 31 people were killed and that ...

  • McGee, we wear sanctions as badge of honour 16 May 2008 10:09 GMT
    ... McGee, we wear sanctions as badge of honour By ... is allowed to travel only to the United Nations headquarters in New York but not to ... to Rhodesia military ideas and concepts from Vietnam where the US had just been routed in ...

  • UN must support Asean on Burma 16 May 2008 09:39 GMT
    ... The UN has planned to hold an international conference in ... May special Asean foreign ministerial meeting in Singapore. The Asean Emergency Rapid Assessment Team has ... affected by the deadly cyclone. On Thursday, Thai Prime Minister Samak Sudaravej flew to Nayphidaw, Burma's ...

  • Myanmar declares new constitution ratified after partial vote 16 May 2008 09:38 GMT
    ... Voting was postponed in the country's largest city, Yangon, ... 43,318, still far below estimates by the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red ... according to the , based in neighboring Thailand. Under the new constitution, the military will ...

  • No breakthroughs in Myanmar aid crisis: EU envoy 16 May 2008 09:34 GMT
    ... No breakthroughs in Myanmar aid crisis: EU envoy 's ... -- a stance that has infuriated the United Nations and world leaders. "They didn't answer the ... Asian neighbours geared up for talks in Singapore on Monday aimed at convening a high-level ...

  • Peace won't come until Arabs accept a Jewish state 16 May 2008 09:31 GMT
    ... Jefferson and Lewis, like many of their day ... today. Six months before Israel’s birth, the United Nations had decided by a two-thirds majority that ... In American terms, it would take 35 Vietnam memorials to encompass such a monumental loss of ...

  • Trudy Rubin: U.N. can and should step in in Myanmar 16 May 2008 09:24 GMT
    ... 12:00 AM CDT on Friday, May 16, 2008 Trudy ... That is the unprecedented situation confronting the United Nations, Western aid agencies and humanitarian organizations. With ... as Burma). As aid piles up in Thailand, and Western ships line up nearby, the ...

  • US Marine guilty of sexual abuse of Japanese girl: court 16 May 2008 08:16 GMT
    ... New storm deepens misery in cyclone-hit Myanmar Reuters YANGON ... cholera," Maureen Birmingham, acting WHO representative in Thailand, told reporters in Bangkok. Diarrhea, dysentery and ... Prime Minister Thein Sein as telling his Thai counterpart this week. Underlining where its main ...

  • Some Myanmar Aid Reportedly Stolen 16 May 2008 08:15 GMT
    ... The United States military's Joint Typhoon Warning Center said ... the first storm, which struck May 3. Thailand's prime minister, Samak Sundaravej, flew to Yangon ... overseas experts were still being denied. The United Nations' top emergency aid official expressed “huge frustration” ...

  • UN plans new plea to Burmese generals 16 May 2008 08:09 GMT
    ... section. It was last updated at 00:29 on ... on May 16 2008. Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, plans to dispatch his humanitarian ... ways to break the logjam. He met Thailand's foreign minister, Noppadol Pattama, and prime minister, Samak ...

  • Vet denied aid for war injury 16 May 2008 08:07 GMT
    ... Alamogordo Daily News By Karl Anderson, Staff Writer ... Willie Ratliffe, who was injured in the Korean War, has been denied medical benefits by the ... bronze stars, Army of Occupation (Japan) Medal, United Nations Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal and ...

  • Monks' Relief Aims Thwarted 16 May 2008 07:58 GMT
    ... Burmese people displaced by Cyclone Nargis wait for donations ... changing. The generals agreed to admit 30 Thai doctors and nurses, the largest foreign-aid contingent yet, ... Brown, the British Prime Minister, announced the United Nations would convene a summit somewhere in Asia ...

  • Holding China Accountable in Burma 16 May 2008 07:58 GMT
    ... In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake that’s devastated China’s ... and starvation. A spokesman for the regional United Nations office said: “Our biggest concern is that ... of foreign aid workers are stuck in Thailand waiting for visas in order to enter ...

  • Bombastic buffoons in Burma 16 May 2008 07:57 GMT
    ... An 11-year-old boy in Hamilton is in hospital receiving ... an adult told the prime minister of Thailand that everything is under control, there is ... of dead at around 43,000 while the United Nations says more than 100,000 have perished. An ...

  • More British aid is being transported to Burma amid concerns the country's military government is continuing to block relief efforts. 16 May 2008 07:20 GMT
    ... Reuters More British aid is being transported to Burma ... hundreds of thousands of their countrymen. The United Nations has warned disease, hunger and thirst could ... Lord Malloch-Brown, who is in Burma's neighbour Thailand for talks on the crisis, said the ...

  • More aid heading for Burma 16 May 2008 07:20 GMT
    ... Reuters More British aid is being transported to Burma ... hundreds of thousands of their countrymen. The United Nations has warned disease, hunger and thirst could ... Lord Malloch-Brown, who is in Burma's neighbour Thailand for talks on the crisis, said the ...

  • Jordan's Queen Rania Receives Honorary Degree In International Relations 16 May 2008 06:58 GMT
    ... Jordan's Queen Rania Receives Honorary Degree In International Relations ... in international relations from Universiti Malaya (UM), Malaysia's oldest and premier university. She received the ... after Malaysia's former permanent representative to the United Nations Tan Sri Razali Ismail who received it ...

  • Some Burma cyclone survivors get cholera 16 May 2008 06:58 GMT
    ... Some cholera has been confirmed among survivors of Cyclone ... cholera," Maureen Birmingham, acting WHO representative in Thailand, said of the hardest-hit Irrawaddy delta where cholera ... epidemic may occur," the WHO said. Meanwhile, UN humanitarian chief John Holmes is awaiting a ...

  • 03:47pm New storm deepens misery in Myanmar 16 May 2008 06:48 GMT
    ... Despite the latest storm, which is likely to turn ... Prime Minister Thein Sein as telling his Thai counterpart this week. Underlining where its main attentions ... and bathe in the same river. The United Nations, which says more than half a million ...


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