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CYCLONE NARGIS AND ITS AFTERMATH - HEADLINES: Prime Minister comforts storm victims
in Kungyangon, Kyauktan townships; Relief supplies sent to storm-hit delta; Service personnel and staff clear
fallen billboards in Yangon; Clearance works
performed in Yangon; Lt-Gen Myint Swe meets with entrepreneurs, traders; Officials and people urged to assist storm victims with goodwill; Helicopters transport relief supplies to storm-hit areas in Ayeyawady Division; Commander presents
aid to relief camps in
Kyimyindine; Minister and deputy minister meet
entrepreneurs at Hlinethaya Industrial Zone; Downed trees on Yangon-
Pyay road cleaned; USDA members clear
fallen trees; Volunteers remove fallen
trees in Yangon; Myanmar thanks international
community and organizations
for their emergency aids; Relief teams of Shan State
(South) arrive in Yangon; Wellwishers may donate cash
and kind to storm victims; Navy takes part in relief works; Air Force participates in
evacuation in storm-hit areas; Repairing of power lines, supply
of electricity inspected; Energy Minister provides relief aids
to storm victims in Kawhmu,
Kungyangon, Dedaye; SWRR Minister accepts cash and
kind from wellwishers; Communication station in
Hainggyikyun reopened; Some wards in Dagon Myothit
(South) Tsp have access to electricity; Latest casualty figures in cyclonic storm; Myanmar receiving emergency relief
provisions, making strenuous efforts to
transport them without delay to affected areas; YCDC supplies water to townships; Plane-loads of foreign emergency aid arriving in Yangon; Relief aids shipped to Nargis-hit
areas in Ayeyawady Division.....CYCLONE NARGIS AND ITS AFTERMATH - PHOTO CAPTIONS: Prime Minister General Thein Sein
inspects a relief camp in Kyauktan; Relief items being sent to the storm-hit areas; Buses and cars running along the Merchant
Street in Yangon; Lt-Gen Myint Swe briefs on emergency works in storm-hit areas in Ayeyawady and Yangon
Divisions; Members of the Tatmadaw, Myanmar Police Force and social
organizations remove trees on Strand Road in Yangon; Prime Minister General Thein Sein speaks at
the meeting of National Disaster Preparedness
Central Committee; Emergency aid for storm victims in
Ayeyawady Division being loaded onto a
helicopter; Minister Brig-Gen Maung Maung Thein and Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Myint Thein view
clearance of debris on a road in Yangon; Tatmadawmen unloading relief aids for storm
victims in Kyauktan Township; USDA members clearing downed trees on
Kaba Aye Pagoda Road; Members of the Tatmadaw unloading Thai-donated bottles of drinking water, candles, hammers and dry noodles from a plane at Yangon
International Airport; Medicines and boxes of chocolate sent from Singapore arrives at Yangon International Airport; Members of the Tatmadaw unloading mosquito nets, tarpaulin, plastic, medicines and food worth
US $ 300,000 donated by Italy; Tatmadawmen unloading relief aids from India at Yangon
International Airport; Tatmadawmen loading trucks with relief aids airlifted from Bangladesh; Tatmadawmen loading a helicopter with relief aids to be transported to
storm hit-areas in Ayeyawady Division; A lay person hands over foreign exchange donated by Sayadaw Bhaddanta
Kusala for the storm victims to Minister Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe; An emergency patient from Ayeyawady Division is being conveyed to
Yangon by helicopter; Health personnel are being helicoptered to storm-hit areas in
Ayeyawady Division to provide health care to victims; Prime Minister General Thein Sein comforts storm victims in
Kungyangon Township; Prime Minister General Thein Sein accepts sacks of rice, medicines
and blankets from donors; Water being
pumped out from a
tank to supply to
residents in
Yangon; Aircraft carrying relief supplies arrive at Yangon International Airport; Vessels carrying relief items for the storm victims leave Yangon for Ayeyawady Division...THE CONSTITUTION: The most appropriate
constitution (3)...
"PERSPECTIVES": "For entire people to follow
public health care notices"
Source/publisher:
SPDC (News and Periodical Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar)
Date of Publication:
2008-05-09
Date of entry:
2008-05-09
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English
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