Myanmar tops list in deforestation in world

The Myanmar junta needs to take lessons from Cyclone Nargis and seriously check massive deforestation in the country. With the junta turning a blind eye and even profiting from rampant illegal logging, the ecological balance is seriously impaired..

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Choppers allowed into cyclone devastated Myanmar

The junta's reluctance in allowing helicopters to airlift relief supplies to the cyclone devastated areas in Irrawaddy Delta seems to have been overcome in hiccups. First one was allowed, then five and finally the last four today, while people died..

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Myanmar junta withholds permission to choppers

Farce and the Myanmar military junta have become synonymous. A month after over a million people perished and 2.5 million were rendered homeless, the heartless regime withholds permission to airlift relief supplies by choppers to devastated areas..

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Myanmar: Now footage of cyclone devastation on VCDs

Given the tight leash that the Myanmar junta has on the media, people knew little of what actually happened after Cyclone Nargis lashed parts of the country. Video compact discs have appeared in the Yangon market depicting the stark tragedy.
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Myanmar: Elaborate rigging and wooing on cards

Even as the killer cyclone lashed Myanmar claiming several thousand lives, there was no let up in the military junta's desperate attempts to have its draft constitution approved by a recalcitrant populace. Plans for rigging and wooing continued.

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Thousands die after cyclone Nargis lashes Myanmar

Thousands perished after cyclone Nargis lashed Myanmar. Several thousand are missing. A state emergency was declared and five regions of the country have been identified as disaster zones.

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