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SF Gate
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Myanmar shunned a U.S. proposal for naval ships to deliver aid to cyclone victims on Wednesday, according to state-run media, dimming hopes that the vessels could provide a major boost to relief efforts.
The New Light of Myanmar, a mouthpiece for Myanm..
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SF Gate
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The United Nations said Friday that severe restrictions by Myanmar's military junta have left aid agencies largely in the dark about the extent of survivors' suffering, two weeks after a killer cyclone left up to 2.5 million people destitute.
John Holm..
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SF Gate
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The United States delivered its first relief supplies to Myanmar on Monday, as the U.N. urged the reclusive nation to open its doors to foreign experts who can help up to 2 million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation.
The military C-130 cargo..
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SF Gate
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A U.N. official says the World Food Program is suspending cyclone aid to Myanmar because its government seized supplies flown into the country.
He says the WFP has no choice but to suspend the shipments until the matter is resolved.
WFP spokesman Pa..
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MSNBC
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At a morning market in the Yangon suburb of Kyimyindaing, a fish monger shouted to shoppers: "Come, come the fish is very fresh."
But an angry woman snapped back: "Even if the fish is fresh, I have no water to cook it!"
Prices double
Vendors sold..
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CNN
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Almost 4,000 people have died and another 3,000 remain missing in Myanmar as a result of this weekend's devastating cyclone, state media reported Monday. The soaring death toll was announced as the reclusive southeast Asian country's ruling military junta..
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SF Gate
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Fifty-four illegal migrant workers from Myanmar suffocated in the back of an unventilated truck Thursday, while the rest of the passengers being smuggled to Thailand pounded on the container and screamed in vain for the driver's help.
More than 100 mig..
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CNN
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Hundreds of political prisoners locked in a Myanmar police compound are facing squalid living conditions following a massive government crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations staged in late September, a political activist leader hiding in Yang..
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Reuters
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Myanmar's junta released 80 monks and 149 women believed to be nuns rounded up last week in a crackdown on the biggest anti-government protests in nearly 20 years, one of those freed and relatives said on Wednesday.
Five local journalists, one of whom..
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Google Associated Press
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Sylvester Stallone says he and his "Rambo" sequel movie crew recently witnessed the human toll of unspeakable atrocities while filming along the Myanmar border.
"I witnessed the aftermath — survivors with legs cut off and all kinds of land-mine injur..
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CNN
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Myanmar's security forces fired automatic weapons into a crowd of anti-government protesters, after attempts to clear them from the streets on Yangon, reports said Thursday. A Japanese national was shot and killed by the military junta, the Japanese Forei..
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Al Jazeera
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Myanmar's military rulers have deployed soldiers and riot police around at least six big monasteries in the commercial capital, Yangon, setting the stage for a showdown with determined pro-democracy protesters.
Hundreds more security forces were waiti..
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USA Today
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Some 100,000 anti-government protesters led by a phalanx of Buddhist monks marched Monday through Yangon, the largest crowd to demonstrate in Myanmar's biggest city since a 1988 pro-democracy uprising that was brutally crushed by the military.
As the m..
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New York Times
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Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched through rain-washed streets for the third day in Myanmar’s main city yesterday, taking the lead in monthlong protests that the military junta has so far been powerless to contain.
They prayed at the gold-spired Shwe..
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CNN
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Women in Myanmar not only have to watch out for pickpockets when they're commuting, shopping or walking down the street, but also hair thieves, a weekly journal reported Sunday.
Long-haired women in crowded areas have fallen victim to surreptitious hai..
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MSNBC
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With Foreign Minister Nyan Win present, Ban said that he wanted to see the delivery of foreign aid and the deployment of aid workers carried out in a "more systematic way."
U.N. official Dan Baker said that junta leader, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, would Fr..
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SF Gate
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Myanmar began three days of mourning for some 78,000 cyclone victims Tuesday, but some residents frustrated with the junta's response to the disaster called it a symbolic gesture that lacked sincerity.
Despite the government's apparent acquiescence to..
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MSNBC
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Junta restricts aid
More than 66,000 people are dead or missing, according to government figures, with fears the death toll will surpass 100,000, according to U.N. and Red Cross estimates. The U.N. says up to 2 million survivors are still in need of em..
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unmadeinchina.org
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Still, Burmese democratic forces invite the population to "bury their fear and fight for a better future."..
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MSNBC
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Myanmar's generals, traditionally paranoid about foreign influence, issued an appeal for international assistance after the storm struck Saturday. They have since dragged their feet on issuing visas to relief workers even as survivors faced hunger, diseas..
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