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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: 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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PAKISTAN: Quake Orphans Still Dependent on Charity, NGOs
By Irfan Ahmed
ISLAMABAD - Thousands of children orphaned by the earthquake that hit northern Pakistan in October 2005, leaving 85,000 people dead, continue to be dependent on charity and support provide by donors and non-government organisations (NGOs).
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POPULATION-CHINA: Quake Shakes One-Child Policy
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - Almond-shaped eyes; a young face of poignant beauty reminiscent of Hu Die -- the Shanghai film star of yesteryears. The impression is helped by the stark, retro-like monochrome photo. But the leap of imagination is clipped almost immediately by the black ribbon draped around the photo and the grieving man clutching it.
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BURMA: UN Gambles With Junta - Forgets History
Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is optimistic that his four-day mission to military-ruled Burma has produced a breakthrough. But the troubled history of relations between the world body and the South-east Asian nation offers a warning against high expectations.
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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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CHINA: Bowing in Grief, to Public Demand
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - The national mourning observed this week for victims of the Sichuan earthquake is the first public remembrance in modern China’s history ordered to commemorate ordinary people rather than political leaders.
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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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BURMA: Foreigners, Cameras Banned in Cyclone-Hit Areas
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Images of the dead keep trickling out of Burma. The most moving are those of children who died when Cyclone Nargis tore through their world in the populous Irrawaddy delta.
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CHINA: Temblor - Test of Openness
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - As the death toll from a devastating earthquake in south-western China continues to climb, the disaster is proving a credibility test for the government, whose mandate is derived from maintaining stability and social order and providing for the welfare of people.
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BURMA: 'Junta Aid Blocks Could Multiply Cyclone Toll'
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Burma’s military regime may soon face charges of allowing tens of thousands of its own people to die through incompetence and bureaucratic red-tape placed in the way of international relief efforts for over one million cyclone victims in the country.
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As time passes since Asia's killer tsunami wiped out close to 290,000 people from Sumatra to Somalia, communities continue their efforts to rebuild their lives. The tsunami struck on Dec. 26, 2004, the day after Christmas. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, said it was an ''unprecedented global catastrophe'' that required an ''unprecedented global response''. And the world responded.

Some aspects of the relief effort have gone well, some have not. IPS stands committed to our journalistic duty to provide our readers with insight into how communities are piecing themselves back together after the horror.