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- Lemme in!
- by letterfromthailand
- in letterfromthailand.blog.co.uk
- 12 days old
- Journalists are often a contrary bunch so Thailand’s troubled neighbour Myanmar, a country from which western media workers are banned under threat of arrest and deportation, was somewhere I was eager to visit before leaving Southeast Asia. I had heard that visas for the country formerly known as Burma were hard to come by so I got the... more
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- Cyclone Nargis survival
- by SchussUK
- in schussuk.blog.co.uk
- 27 days old
- Two months after Cyclone Nargis flounced across Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta, taking an approximately 134,000 lives and destroying crucial farm lands the military rulers are as secretive as ever and its people still linger far and removed from the rest of the world. Burmese saved by survival instincts SEVEN weeks have passed since Cyclone Nargis... more
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- Burma
- by lostjohnny
- in lostjohnnyparadox.blog.co.uk
- 55 days old
- So the Burmese Generals are now willing to accept foreign aid! They are requesting millions of pounds in assistance! Is it too late? I agree that we should help where we can however; I feel that these despots will use the aid money to continue to repress their people and fulfill their own desires. So lets say to Burma thrown down your evil... more
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- Burma & China
- by 359Rabbit
- in Rabbitthought.blog.co.uk
- 64 days old
- Burma state TV has released more details on the cyclone that hit the country nearly two weeks ago, the offical death toll has now jumped to 78,000 with 56,000 still missing. The Red Cross and UN have estimated the death to be over 100,000. Mean whle in China some 5 million people have been made homeless after the earth quake last week, the... more
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- 16th May 2008
- by Melrose
- in francis-groves.blog.co.uk
- 65 days old
- A longer than usual gap since last posting. This is partly due to be busier (various things) but partly because I didn't really feel inspired to the share the thoughts that had come to mind. Most of the items in the news that gave pause for thought were domestic UK ones. The disasters in Burma and China have made a deep impression but they... more
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- Asian Disasters
- by 359Rabbit
- in Rabbitthought.blog.co.uk
- 65 days old
- What a difference between the two major disasters that have taken place in Asia over the last two weeks. The earthquake in China may have claimed the lives of up to 50,000 people. This once secretive society has now let in the worlds press and the whole world can see the rescue operation. China is a large a powerful nation and does not require... more
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- No Coalition Of The Willing For Burma Then?
- by ianrthorpe
- in machiavelli.blog.co.uk
- 66 days old
- Call me a bitter and twisted old socialist curmudgeon if you like, but as I follow the unfolding of a humanitarian tragedy in Burma I get angry with the hypocrisy of western governments. Many times more people will die as a result of the intransigence and self interest of the fascist military rulers than were killed by the original natural... more
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- burma
- by dragnik
- in dragnik.blog.co.uk
- 73 days old
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