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CYCLONE NARGIS AND ITS AFTERMATH - HEADLINES: Donors may go right down to
storm-hit areas of their choice -
NAY PYI TAW, 27 May— The National Disaster Preparedness Central Committee today issued the News Release No. 8 dated 27 May 2008.
The full text of the news release is as follows:
News Release No. 8:...Lt-Gen Myint Swe inspects removal of trees,
repairing of state-owned buildings...Myitta Centre DBO supplies CI sheets for monasteries...Donations for monasteries pouring in...Htantabin
Township
reconstruction
in progress...Feedstuff for cattle arrive...Minister gives instructions on power
supply to industrial zones...SWRR Minister receives UNFPA
Resident Representative...Minister
receives
UNICEF
Official...
Minister and officials of UN Agencies and NGOs tour
storm-hit regions in Ayeyawady Division...Laotian Prof visits
relief camps in
Kyauktan Tsp...Rehabilitation work under way in
Bogale, Dedaye...Medical team of France
arrives...NPED Minister meets
assistant administrator and
director of UNDP...More international
relief aid arrive...Max Myanmar, Ayeya Shwemyay take part
in rehabilitation works...MEGA Co donates medicines to YGH...Make donations to the storm victims.
Everybody may make donations freely.
Everybody may make donations to any person or any area.
However, wellwishers are urged to avoid unsystematic donations and acts that
may tarnish the image of the nation and its people...Adjutant-General meets with companies
engaged in rehabilitation of storm-hit regions...122 power tillers to be
distributed to
farmers in Dedaye Tsp.....CYCLONE NARGIS AND ITS AFTERMATH - PHOTO CAPTIONS:
Lt-Gen Myint Swe inspects removal of fallen trees in Myakyuntha park...Minister Brig-Gen Thura Myint Maung
accepts 5,500 CI sheets worth over K 27.5
million presented by U Win Pe...Prof Alain Patel, President of Association
Medicale Franco Asiatique hands over K 30
million and medicine worth US $ 16108 for
storm victims to President of Myanmar
Medical Association Prof Dr Kyaw Myint
Naing in Yangon on 26 May, 2008...Feedstuff donated
by WSPA being
unloaded from a
plane at Yangon
International
Airport...Minister Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint inspects unloading of materials
from a vessel to be used for power projects...Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe receives Mr Daniel B Baker, Resident
Representative of UNFPA at Maykhala Hall...Responsible personnel of Htoo Trading and Air
Bagan Co Ltd hand over document of building to
be used for water supply to storm victims...Lt-Col Maung Thant
explaining mobile
health care services...We put chlorine into
the lakes to supply
safe water.
(Dr Tin Maung Aye)...Health staff performing a medical check-up on
a girl...A water purifier installed in the relief camp in
Yadana Dipa sports grounds...Young men playing sepak takraw in the relief camp in Yadana Dipa
sports grounds...Team members chlorinate the water barrels in cooperation with
INGOs...Minister Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe and officials of UN agencies and NGOs meeting with storm victims in Pyapon...Deputy Minister Dr Mya Oo and Prof Dr Eksavang Vongvichit visit clinics at
Hsinkan Relief Camp in Kyauktan...Minister U Soe Tha receives Ms Kathleen
Cravero, Assistant Administrator and Director
of UNDP, Mr Bishow Parajuli, Resident
Representative of UNDP, and Deputy Resident
Representative Mr Sanaka Samarasinha...Relief supplies contributed by Republic of Korea arrive Yangon International Airport...Relief items donated by Red Cross Society of Thailand arrive Yangon International Airport...Minister Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe and Mr Daniel B Baker look into the temporary school
in a tent at Hlinebone Village in Labutta...Employees of Max Myanmar donate relief aids for victims in Labutta...Mr Dirish Wadhwa of MEGA donates medicine worth K 8,978,356 to
Yangon General Hospital through Dr Daw Nu Nu Tha...Minister Maj-Gen Aung Min views power tillers being assembled by farmers in storm-hit areas
in Dedaye Township...Minister Maj-Gen Aung Min chats with Chinese and Myanmar doctors providing medical care
to storm-victims at People?s Hospital in Dedaye.....
ARTICLE: "Health care and disease control
measures at relief camps in Labutta"
Interview by Maung Maung Htwe (MNA)
Photos by Par Si (MNA).....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Strive for timely cultivation
in storm-affected areas".
Source/publisher:
SPDC (News and Periodical Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar)
Date of Publication:
2008-05-28
Date of entry:
2008-05-28
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English
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