"The New Light of Myanmar" 16 May 2008

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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".

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SPDC (News and Periodical Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar)

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2008-05-16

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2008-05-21

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