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BURMA: Expats Keep Democracy Hopes Alive
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Aung Moe Zaw still lives in the hope that democracy will take root in Burma, 20 years after hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Rangoon to oppose that country’s military dictatorship. ‘’More people have joined our democracy movement. We are very optimistic about it,’’ the 41-year-old said in an interview on the eve of that anniversary better known in Burma as ‘8-8-88’, the day when this spirit of democracy flowered, Aug. 8, 1988.
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BURMA: Females Hit Worst by Cyclone Nargis - Report
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Nearly three months after the powerful Cyclone Nargis tore through Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta, it has emerged that the majority of those who died in the devastated area were women.
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BURMA: UN Missions Draw Derision
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - In their hour of despair, Burma’s beleaguered people continue to find comfort in humour. New jokes reflect new frustrations. The latest target is Ibrahim Gambari, United Nations special envoy for Burma.
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Offer to Release Suu Kyi a Ploy?
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Reacting to growing international pressure Burma’s military regime has said it will consider releasing the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest in six months.
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BURMA: One Million Survivors Not Yet Reached - U.N.
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - U.N. officials are giving the impression that the world body is making headway in helping the millions of survivors in Burma’s cyclone-hit Irrawaddy Delta.
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BURMA: Crime for Civil Society to Provide Relief?
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - The detention of a prominent comedian in Burma points to an ominous turn of events in the military-ruled country. It has reportedly become a ‘crime’ for individuals and civil society groups to provide emergency relief to the hundreds of thousands of cyclone victims.
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BURMA: Nargis Victims Forced From Camps
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - A global human rights lobby slammed Burma’s military regime for driving survivors who have endured untold hardship since last month’s powerful cyclone into further misery.
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BURMA: Thousands of Children Orphaned By Nargis
By Moe Yu May
RANGOON - Ko Ko Aung remembers the moment when he thought he had lost his older brother, Wai Yan Soe, to the powerful waters that tore through their house on the night Cyclone Nargis struck, one month ago.
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BURMA: ASEAN Steps in Where Others May Not Tread
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Four weeks after Cyclone Nargis swept through the populous Irrawaddy Delta in Burma, a regional effort to help the victims is slowly grinding into shape.
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BURMA: Did Cyclone Nargis Kill 300,000 People?
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Three weeks after Cyclone Nargis crashed through Burma’s populous Irrawaddy Delta, the country’s military regime has been more forthcoming about the number of buffaloes and chickens that perished than on human casualties.
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BURMA: Earthquake Lets China Off the Hook
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - The outpouring of global sympathy in the aftermath of the deadly Sichuan earthquake has shifted the focus away from China’s role and influence in cyclone-stricken Burma, quieting critics.
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ENVIRONMENT-BURMA: 'Mangrove Loss Exacerbated Cyclone Devastation'
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - When researchers surveyed the battered coastlines of Asian countries after the December 2004 tsunami, they stumbled upon an arresting fact -- that mangroves can save lives.
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BURMA: Public Health Ailing Even Before Cyclone Struck
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Even before Cyclone Nargis tore through Burma’s populous Irrawaddy Delta, the country’s public health system was ailing. It struggled to survive on a slow drip of funds from the state’s coffers.
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Labour in RSSThe timing of Cyclone Nargis could not have been worse for Burma's isolationist military regime, striking as it did a week before a constitutional referendum that had all the signs of being a rigged affair. With the death toll predicted to cross the 100,000 mark and the devastation unprecedented, the regime may be compelled to allow in international aid. If that happens it will turn the floodlights not only on the referendum but also on the human rights situation in Burma after the bloody crackdown in September on Buddhist monks leading street protests against price rises and the junta's policies.

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