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REFERENDUM: Over 92 per cent say ?Yes”
to Referendum
Commission for Holding Referendum
issues Announcement No 10/2008...Commission for Holding
Referendum holds meeting
No 9/2008...Referendum held in Kawthoung...
CYCLONE NARGIS AND ITS AFTERMATH -HEADLINES: Legal action for any relief
aid embezzlement
National Disaster Preparedness Central
Committee releases announcement...Swedish Ambassador calls on NPED Minister...MWAF takes part in carrying relief supplies...Storm-hit areas using rain
water effectively...Metta dispensed,
merits shared for
the dead, storm
victims...Rehabilitation works carried out in Ayeyawady Division...MWJA donates
cash and kind to
storm-affected areas...Telephone lines under repair...Emergency aid flowing into relief camps in Ayeyawady Div...International relief supplies flow in by air:-
YANGON, 15 May—The international community is providing relief supplies to the
storm-hit areas. Ten donor countries have transported relief items by air 30 times and
by two naval ships to Myanmar International Thilawa Port Terminal from 6 up to 14
May. The following table shows donor countries, aircraft, relief supplies and tonnage...Singapore donates humanitarian assistance...MPMEEA donates cash and
medicines to storm victims...Information Minister comforts storm
victims in Hlinethaya...Health care provided in
Hainggyikyun...Relief works carried out in Dedaye...Latest casualty figures...Diplomats visit relief camps in Dagon
Myothit (North), Kyauktan...More relief items from abroad arrive at
Yangon International Airport...Volunteers carry out relief,
rehabilitation works...Relief aid shipped to
storm victims in
Labutta...Rehabilitation under way in Kyauktan...Reconstruction
tasks
discussed...Prime Minister visits relief
camp in Twantay Township - Rehabilitation already begun in storm-hit areas...Hainggyikyun receiving aid, other help.....
CYCLONE NARGIS AND ITS AFTERMATH -
PHOTO CAPTIONS: Minister U Soe Tha receives Ambassador of Sweden to Myanmar
Mr Lennart Linner...Responsible personnel of MWAF carrying
relief aids onto a ship at Wardan Jetty in
Yangon...Responsible personnel of MWAF carrying
relief aids onto a ship at Wardan Jetty in
Yangon...Minister Col Thein Nyunt inspects distribution of relief aids to storm survivors in Mawlamyinegyun...Minister Brig-Gen Thein Zaw inspects connecting fiber transmission cable between
Mingaladon and Htaukkyant...CEC members of Myanmar Writers and
Journalists Association donates K 3.6 million
to storm victims through officials concerned...Storm survivors receive medical treatment in Bogale Township...Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan comforts storm survivors at a relief
camp in Hlinethaya Township...Doctors provide medical care to storm survivors in Hainggyikyun...Specialists raise awareness of infectious diseases in Kungyangon
Township...Prime Minister General Thein Sein inspects
providing medical treatment to storm
survivors in Twantay...Prime Minister General Thein Sein inspects relief camp in Shwesandaw Ward in Twantay...Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Vice-Admiral Soe Thein distributes relief
aid to storm survivors in Hainggyikyun...Diplomats and Deputy Minister U Kyaw Thu
view a relief camp in Dagon (North)
Township...A plane carrying relief aid donated by WFP arrives Yangon
International Airport...A plane carrying medicines donated by Yunnan Provincial
Government of People?s Republic of China arrives Yangon
International Airport...Two planes carrying relief aid and food donated by Khoo Tect Puat of Singapore arrive Yangon International Airport...Storm survivors seen with relief aid in Bogale Township, Ayeyawady Division...Storm survivors stay in a tent at a relief camp in Labutta Township...Volunteers unloading relief aids and foods donated by Baiyoke Hotel
Group Eagle and Sea from a plane at Yangon International Airport...Relief aid donated by Thailand at Yangon International Airport...Volunteers carry relief aid onto a ship...Prime Minister General Thein Sein inspects temporary accommodations for storm victims
donated by the government of India in Twantay..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Humanitarian spirit further
cements good neighbourly relations
between Myanmar and Thailand".
Source/publisher:
SPDC (News and Periodical Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar)
Date of Publication:
2008-05-16
Date of entry:
2008-05-21
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