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Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar

Irrawaddy: Charcoal price hike leads to more firewood use – Kyi Wai

burmanet.org
22-Jul-2008
        

The escalating price of charcoal has forced many Rangoon consumers to choose another basic source of energy for cooking—wood. In Rangoon, low quality, broken pieces of charcoal now sell for 500 kyat a viss (equivalent to 1.63...

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Thailand rejects Cambodian demand for ASEAN to resolve border dispute

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22-Jul-2008 66 related
        

Thailand on Tuesday rejected a Cambodian request to allow Southeast Asia's main grouping mediate in their simmering border dispute that has brought thousands of troops from both sides in a tense standoff. Bilateral talks Monday...

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Asean's self-absorbed members

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22-Jul-2008 14 related
        

The annual meeting in Singapore this week of Asean foreign ministers and those from the major nations of Asia, Europe and America will get some international attention because of events on its sidelines, where U.S. Secretary of...

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Burma, North Korea Top Southeast Asian Security Agenda

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22-Jul-2008 304 related
        

By David I. McKeeby Staff Writer Washington -- Against a backdrop of growing regional political and economic cooperation, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will discuss the challenges of Burma and North Korea as she meets...

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Burma cyclone caused $4bn in damage, UN report says

ft.com
22-Jul-2008 1 related
        

By Raphael Minder in Singapore and Amy Kazmin in New,Delhi Cyclone Nargis, which swept across Burma in early May, caused more than $4bn in damage and losses to the country, a level of devastation on a par with the destruction...

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UN chief welcomes report on post-cyclone needs in Myanmar

xinhuanet.com
21-Jul-2008 4 related
        

UNITED NATIONS, July 21 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed Monday's release of the Post-Nargis Joint Assessment Final Report on the margins of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign...

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ANALYSIS: ASEAN risks being sidelined without fulfilling goals

earthtimes.org
22-Jul-2008 2 related
        

Singapore - Praise heaped on the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) for persuading Myanmar's reluctant junta to open its doors to foreign aid have not halted nagging questions about the organization's future. While...

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PRESS DIGEST-Financial Times, Wall St Journal Asia editions

reuters.com
21-Jul-2008
        

SINGAPORE, July 22 (Reuters) - The Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal carried the following stories in their Asia print and/or Web site editions on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for...

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US, Malaysia urge Asia-Pacific air forces to work together in disaster response planning

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22-Jul-2008 1 related
        

The United States has urged Asia-Pacific air forces to plan and cooperate more in disaster relief efforts, saying Tuesday that the region faces a "tremendous potential" for calamities like Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis. Lt. Gen....

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Serbia captures top Bosnian Serb genocide suspect Karadzic

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21-Jul-2008 1,904 related
        

Agence France-Presse BELGRADE - Serbia said Monday that its security forces captured Radovan Karadzic, the wartime Bosnian Serb leader accused of genocide, after nearly 13 years on the run from the UN war crimes tribunal....

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