CYCLONE NARGIS AND ITS AFTERMATH - HEADLINES: Durable houses for storm survivors being constructed...Sewing machines donated to storm victims...Storm survivors receive health care in Bogale Township...MWEA donates relief aids to storm survivors in Mawlamyinegyun Tsp...Charity play 25-27 June...Chairman of NDPCC Prime Minister General Thein Sein attends ceremony to present medicines, medical equipment worth US$ 150,000 for storm victims donated by Sitagu Missionary Group...More international relief supplies arrive at Yangon International Airport...Wellwishers from states and divisions donate cash and kind to storm victims...BEPSs opened in Labutta Township..... ARTICLE: "It has come to their knowledge" by Hlaing Aung: "I happened to read an article ?In Myanmar, surprising recovery” featured in 17-6-2008 issue of the International Herald Tribune Newspaper Website. It said that about six weeks after the outbreak of the Cyclone Nargis the medical doctors and staff of INGOs, who had given health care in the storm-hit areas, on their return disclosed the situations in the areas were not as bad as expected. Regarding the storm, the media of the West bloc made various accusations against Myanmar. So did high-ranking officials of certain western countries. Of the two major accusations, the first said that tens of thousands of victims lost their lives due to the fact that in the aftermath of the natural disaster, foreign aid (foreign warships) were not allowed to enter the nation and rescue tasks could not be carried out in time. The other was that millions of victims would die of hunger because the Myanmar government did not take care of the storm victims, nor did it provide food or health care. And tens of thousands of victims would die of dysentery and diarrhoea due to consumption of unsafe water. When the government refuted the accusations, they accused the government of inventing news and imposing a news blackout. However, in the article sent from Yangon, some foreigners who had made trips to the storm-affected areas said that the accusations were untrue. Charge d? Affaires ai Ms Shari Villarosa of US Embassy to Myanmar said, ?I?m not getting the sense that there have been a lot of deaths as a result of the delay”. The US defence..."..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Provide requirements for progress of storm-hit areas"