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May 23, 2008 — The U.N. World Health Organization says the official toll of dead and missing from Tropical Cyclone Nargis now exceeds 132,000 ... one of the few available Internet connections in ...
An aid worker and a Yangon resident reflect on the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. MYANMAR, May 15, 2008 — -- Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar on May 2nd, 2008, causing massive damage and killing ...
YANGON, MYANMAR — The leader of Myanmar’s military government made his first visit to a relief camp since Cyclone Nargis, patting heads of babies and shaking hands of survivors, amid growing ...
Myanmar – YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Hundreds of millions of dollars in international aid still are needed to help Myanmar's people recover and rebuild from Cyclone Nargis two years ago ...
At least 15,000 people were killed in the Myanmar cyclone and the toll was likely to rise as officials made contact with the worst-hit areas, the military government's foreign minister said on ...
Winds at the Yangon airport hit 69 mph ... to devastated sites--I am sure this will be the case again with Cyclone Nargis. We may never know the true magnitude of what happened.
Despite warnings to the government, Cyclone Nargis swept across the coastal belt ... up the densely populated Ayeyarwady Delta, west of Yangon. Destruction to property and farmland was estimated ...
So many trees are down … Yangon looks wounded ... and Burmese civic organizations all over the world have been following the news of cyclone Nargis victims with deep sympathy and concerns. Cyclone ...
Tropical cyclone Nargis (category 4 on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, SSHS) made landfall on 2 May 2008, causing the worst natural disaster in Myanmar's recorded history. Official death ...
Phone lines were cut and the Internet was down after Cyclone Nargis hit Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar. But as communications were restored, many Yangon residents inside took time to share ...
which bore the brunt of Cyclone Nargis’ 120-mph winds. Myanmar Foreign Minister told diplomats in Yangon on Monday that more than 10,000 people may have died when Nargis made landfall on Saturday.
Cyclone Nargis swept across Myanmar on May 2 and 3 ... affecting up to 2.4 million people in Yangon and the Irrawaddy Delta. One year on, aid workers say at least 500,000 survivors, including ...