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BURMA: UN Gambles With Junta - Forgets History
Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is optimistic that his four-day mission to military-ruled Burma has produced a breakthrough. But the troubled history of relations between the world body and the South-east Asian nation offers a warning against high expectations.
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BURMA: Did Cyclone Nargis Kill 300,000 People?
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Three weeks after Cyclone Nargis crashed through Burma’s populous Irrawaddy Delta, the country’s military regime has been more forthcoming about the number of buffaloes and chickens that perished than on human casualties.
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BURMA: Earthquake Lets China Off the Hook
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - The outpouring of global sympathy in the aftermath of the deadly Sichuan earthquake has shifted the focus away from China’s role and influence in cyclone-stricken Burma, quieting critics.
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ENVIRONMENT-BURMA: 'Mangrove Loss Exacerbated Cyclone Devastation'
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - When researchers surveyed the battered coastlines of Asian countries after the December 2004 tsunami, they stumbled upon an arresting fact - that mangroves can save lives.
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CHINA: Bowing in Grief, to Public Demand
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - The national mourning observed this week for victims of the Sichuan earthquake is the first public remembrance in modern China’s history ordered to commemorate ordinary people rather than political leaders.
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BURMA: Public Health Ailing Even Before Cyclone Struck
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Even before Cyclone Nargis tore through Burma’s populous Irrawaddy Delta, the country’s public health system was ailing. It struggled to survive on a slow drip of funds from the state’s coffers.
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BURMA: Foreigners, Cameras Banned in Cyclone-Hit Areas
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Images of the dead keep trickling out of Burma. The most moving are those of children who died when Cyclone Nargis tore through their world in the populous Irrawaddy delta.
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CHINA: Temblor - Test of Openness
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - As the death toll from a devastating earthquake in south-western China continues to climb, the disaster is proving a credibility test for the government, whose mandate is derived from maintaining stability and social order and providing for the welfare of people.
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BURMA: 'Junta Aid Blocks Could Multiply Cyclone Toll'
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Burma’s military regime may soon face charges of allowing tens of thousands of its own people to die through incompetence and bureaucratic red-tape placed in the way of international relief efforts for over one million cyclone victims in the country.
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BURMA: Junta Holds Referendum in Cyclone Aftermath
By Moe Yu May
PATHEIN - Shortly after sunrise on Saturday, a few men and women in this town on the banks of a river broke their morning routines to cast ballots - an act unusual in the military-ruled country.
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BURMA: Junta Gives Referendum Priority Over Cyclone Relief
By Larry Jagan
BANGKOK - Disregarding the disaster caused by Cyclone Nargis, Burma’s military rulers are bent on holding a constitutional referendum on Saturday, said to be designed to enhance the junta’s grip over the country.
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BURMA: Cyclone Nargis Exposes Junta's Anti-People Attitude
By Larry Jagan
BANGKOK - Cyclone Nargis - Burma’s worst natural disaster in living memory - has reinforced the image of the military in that country as a force interested solely in perpetuating its grip on power, regardless of costs to the people it claims to protect.
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BANGLADESH: Fear of Famine Follows Cyclone Havoc
By Farid Ahmed
DHAKA - With its grain crops wiped out, Bangladesh has appealed to the world community for half a million tonnes of rice or wheat to immediately feed thousands of starving survivors of the Nov. 15 cyclone and stave of a possible famine.
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As time passes since Asia's killer tsunami wiped out close to 290,000 people from Sumatra to Somalia, communities continue their efforts to rebuild their lives. The tsunami struck on Dec. 26, 2004, the day after Christmas. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, said it was an ''unprecedented global catastrophe'' that required an ''unprecedented global response''. And the world responded.

Some aspects of the relief effort have gone well, some have not. IPS stands committed to our journalistic duty to provide our readers with insight into how communities are piecing themselves back together after the horror.