Farmers in some flood-hit areas in Myanmar have resumed cultivation as the water has receded there, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Wednesday. Over the past week, torrential rain had caused flood in some...
YANGON, July 9 (Xinhua) -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations will provide more emergency relief aid supplies to storm survivors in two cyclone-hard-hit regions, the state newspaper New Light of...
YANGON, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Local doctors are being invited to provide long-term free medical care to victims of deadly cyclone Nargis, official newspaper The New Light of Myanmar reported Saturday. Myanmar Medical Association...
YANGON, July 4 (Xinhua) -- According to Friday's official newspaper New Light of Myanmar, low-cost house, fishing boat, powered tiller and fertilizer are among the urgently-need items invited for increased donation. A total of...
The Myanmar authorities are pleading for more donations for the resettlement of storm survivors, outlining urgently-needed items for well-wishers to make the move individually or in groups. According to Friday's official...
More than six weeks after Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta and the southern parts of Yangon and Bago, killing more than 130,000 people, the junta continues to restrict aid access to some 2.4 million survivors,...
Seven weeks after huge swaths of Myanmar were savaged by a cyclone and tidal wave, a new and remarkable citizen movement is delivering emergency supplies to survivors neglected by the military government's haphazard relief...
One man was killed and two others injured in Myanmar in landmine blasts blamed on ethnic rebels who have been battling the military government for decades, state media said Tuesday. One was killed by “an insurgent-planted mine”...
A local worker in Bago, 58 km north of Yangon, in Myanmar Monday, June 16, 2008, loads a cart drawn by water buffalo. Farmers in Myanmar typically use water buffalo to plow rice paddies. Farmer Zaw Naing was puzzled as he...
If you are a Myanmarese citizen, having lived in the military-ruled country for decades you have legitimate reasons to deeply worry about the survivors of the deadly Cyclone Nargis that hit the country on May 2-3. Despite the...