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	<title>Burmanet</title>
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	<description>A listserv covering Burma</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>New York Times: U.N. resuming aid to Myanmar after dispute with junta - Seth Mydans</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/new-york-times-un-resuming-aid-to-myanmar-after-dispute-with-junta-seth-mydans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Inside Burma</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As misery grew for a sixth day for uncounted survivors of the devastating cyclone in Myanmar, the United Nations said Friday that the government had seized its relief supplies in Yangon, while a Pentagon official said that the junta had come to a breakthrough agreement to allow a single American aid plane to land on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organizations working with victims of Cyclone Nargis</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/organizations-working-with-victims-of-cyclone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
		
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http://donate.ifrc.org
www.uscampaignforburma.org/cyclone-nargis-devistates-burma 
www.worldvision.org 
www.mercycorps.org
http://www.avaaz.org
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		<title>Irrawaddy: Pro-government thugs attack relief vehicles – Min Lwin</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/irrawaddy-pro-government-thugs-attack-relief-vehicles-%e2%80%93-min-lwin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/irrawaddy-pro-government-thugs-attack-relief-vehicles-%e2%80%93-min-lwin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Inside Burma</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Club-wielding members of a pro-regime citizens’ group attempted to hijack relief supplies in Rangoon, according to local charity groups and non-government organizations in the former Burmese capital.
A convoy of vehicles carrying rice to cyclone victims in Rangoon’s Thanlyin Township was attacked on Thursday by armed members of Swan-Ar-Shin, a government-supported organization that helped suppress last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mizzima News: Junta expels Qatar aircraft carrying relief supplies</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/mizzima-news-junta-expels-qatar-aircraft-carrying-relief-supplies-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/mizzima-news-junta-expels-qatar-aircraft-carrying-relief-supplies-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Inside Burma</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The obduracy of the Burmese military junta is inexplicable. On Thursday it sent back an aircraft from Qatar carrying relief material for cyclone hit victims. The aircraft was sent back from Rangoon&#8217;s Mingalardon airport.
The military aircraft from Qatar carried a team of 62 people along with relief material including medicines and landed at the Mingalardon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mizzima News: Voters feel referendum date inappropriate – Maung Dee &#038; Jone Mann</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/mizzima-news-voters-feel-referendum-date-inappropriate-%e2%80%93-maung-dee-jone-mann/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/mizzima-news-voters-feel-referendum-date-inappropriate-%e2%80%93-maung-dee-jone-mann/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Inside Burma</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several Burmese voters said they are not happy with the government&#8217;s plan to conduct a nationwide referendum on Saturday amidst the devastation and loss of the monster Cyclone Nargis.
&#8220;At this point of time, to me, I think it is important to focus on the cyclone victims rather than on conducting a referendum,&#8221; said a resident [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reuters: Corpses dot waterways of Myanmar&#8217;s stricken delta</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/reuters-corpses-dot-waterways-of-myanmars-stricken-delta/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/reuters-corpses-dot-waterways-of-myanmars-stricken-delta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Inside Burma</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloated corpses bobbing in canals or spread eagled on riverbanks dot the Irrawaddy delta, the most somber symbol of devastating Cyclone Nargis and the military government&#8217;s struggle to respond. &#8220;I have been looking for my wife and three daughters for six days,&#8221; said farmer Tei Lin in Bo Thin, one of the hamlets struck last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reuters: Burma authorities approve single US aid aircraft</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/reuters-burma-authorities-approve-single-us-aid-aircraft/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/reuters-burma-authorities-approve-single-us-aid-aircraft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Inside Burma</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authorities in Burma have given approval for a single US military aircraft carrying relief supplies to land in the country on Monday. 
&#8220;An aircraft has been approved to land with relief supplies on Monday,&#8221; the military official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The UN World Food Programme also announced that it is to resume aid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVB: Funeral fund distributes rice to disaster victims – Naw Say Phaw</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/dvb-funeral-fund-distributes-rice-to-disaster-victims-%e2%80%93-naw-say-phaw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/dvb-funeral-fund-distributes-rice-to-disaster-victims-%e2%80%93-naw-say-phaw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Inside Burma</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Free Funeral Service Society is working to help victims of Cyclone Nargis in Rangoon, distributing rice and setting up relief camps, the group’s financial coordinator said yesterday.
Shwe Zee Gwat, the FFSS’s financial coordinator and wife of actor Kyaw Thu, a prominent member of the charity, said they were using donations from Burmese nationals overseas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irrawaddy: Cyclone survivors now racked by disease – Saw Yan Naing</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/irrawaddy-cyclone-survivors-now-racked-by-disease-%e2%80%93-saw-yan-naing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/irrawaddy-cyclone-survivors-now-racked-by-disease-%e2%80%93-saw-yan-naing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Health</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One in five children who survived in the areas hit by Cyclone Nargis is suffering from diarrhea, according to a UNICEF official in Rangoon.
Osamu Kunii, UNICEF’s chief of health and nutrition, told the Associated Press that the number could still rise.
Veronique Terrasse, a communications officer for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Bangkok, told The Irrawaddy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mizzima News: Urgent health-care and food needed for survivors – Nem Davies</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/mizzima-news-urgent-health-care-and-food-needed-for-survivors-%e2%80%93-nem-davies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/mizzima-news-urgent-health-care-and-food-needed-for-survivors-%e2%80%93-nem-davies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Health</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One week after the deadly cyclone, survivors in the Irrawaddy Delta still urgently need health care and food, while many are suffering from trauma, residents and aid workers said.
In Laputta Township, 30 monasteries and schools were filled with homeless survivors who were sharing food collected from local residents.
&#8220;But it is not enough for them,&#8221; said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Australian: Red Cross workers get visas for Burma</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/the-australian-red-cross-workers-get-visas-for-burma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/the-australian-red-cross-workers-get-visas-for-burma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Health</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEVEN Red Cross aid workers, including four Australians, have received visas to enter cyclone-hit Burma.
Australian Michael Annear, regional disaster response coordinator who has been in Burma since Tuesday, spoke to international media tonight.
An estimated 1.5 million people have been left homeless by the deadly cyclone Nargis, which has killed an estimated 66,000 people.
Red Cross workers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFP: Myanmar at risk from further cyclones: UN weather expert</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/afp-myanmar-at-risk-from-further-cyclones-un-weather-expert/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/afp-myanmar-at-risk-from-further-cyclones-un-weather-expert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Regional</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Myanmar could suffer another major storm this season even as it braces for more bad weather after the devastating impact of Cyclone Nargis, a UN weather expert warned Friday.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not rare if they have another (cyclone),&#8221; said Yuichi Ono, a programme officer for the UN&#8217;s International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR).
The Bay of Bengal generally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFP: UN agency to resume aid flights into Myanmar</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/afp-un-agency-to-resume-aid-flights-into-myanmar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/afp-un-agency-to-resume-aid-flights-into-myanmar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>International</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UN said Friday it would resume aid flights into Myanmar after a suspension triggered by a tussle with the military regime over two planeloads of goods meant for desperate cyclone survivors.
The junta has refused to allow foreign relief workers to direct the relief effort after the disaster which struck a week ago, drawing condemnation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mizzima News: 100,000 and still counting; dying on Burma junta&#8217;s clock – May Ng</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/mizzima-news-100000-and-still-counting-dying-on-burma-juntas-clock-%e2%80%93-may-ng/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/mizzima-news-100000-and-still-counting-dying-on-burma-juntas-clock-%e2%80%93-may-ng/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Long before the catastrophic cyclone smashed into Burma and brought down the already feeble nation to its knees, the core of the military organization suffered a serious blow last September. During the monks&#8217; uprising, a Burmese diplomat privately expressed his sympathy for the monks uprising and his worries about the affect of western sanctions on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irrawaddy: Wanted: Immediate US aid air drop – Kyaw Zwa Moe</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/irrawaddy-wanted-immediate-us-aid-air-drop-%e2%80%93-kyaw-zwa-moe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2008/05/09/irrawaddy-wanted-immediate-us-aid-air-drop-%e2%80%93-kyaw-zwa-moe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Opinion</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A US air drop of humanitarian aid to the desperate survivors in the Irrawaddy delta—with or without Burma’s permission—is the only way to save lives that hang in the balance with each passing hour. 
Unilateral humanitarian intervention is justified, because the Burmese junta has been given a chance to cooperate with dozens of international offers [...]]]></description>
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