Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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LATEST. New Guidelines trip up aid agencies.

Myanmar's military government presents aid agencies with a gift bound in red tape.


It gets worse

Padi fields are still flooded. This means farmers could miss planting season this year and there will be no rice to harvest and even more will starve.


Help is on the way

The rundown on aid organisations working on the ground to get supplies to the thousands of desperate people abandoned by their government?


Diplomatic License

How far does talking to the Myanmar military government go in actually helping to get things done?


There's really another way to look at it

A highly-respected Myanmar academic explains the puzzling behaviour of the country's military rulers.


Could all this have been avoided?

Were lives lost because the government did not listen to warnings of an approaching cyclone?



WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

Browse through the archives for weekly updates on the aid delivery and situation from the affected regions.