http://www.wikio.co.uk/search=Irrawaddy delta Wikio - Irrawaddy delta http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=69274866 The World Food Programme airlift to Myanmar was closed earlier this week. The airlift allowed emergency aid goods to get through quickly to the devastated Irrawaddy delta. Cyclone Nargis caused heavy ... Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:10:27 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=69274866 2008-08-28T10:10:27Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=69256418 In the wake of Cyclone Nargis, the World Food Programme that provided emergency aid to Myanmar's devastated Irrawaddy delta was closed this week. Aid workers are now preparing for the next phase of the operation. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:47:26 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=69256418 2008-08-28T06:47:26Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=69203697 Relief efforts by the Free Burma Rangers to help cyclone victims in the Irrawaddy delta are under threat due to funding shortages, according to an FBR official speaking on condition of anonymity. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:03:18 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=69203697 2008-08-27T19:03:18Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=69017372 from the Boston Globe 8 out of 10 families lived in poverty before the cyclone hit Burma. The devastation can still be seen in the area, and many things have not been restored. - Kale By Seth Mydans, BANGKOK - Nearly four months after the cyclone, the Irrawaddy Delta in Burma is a flat, dark expanse of ruin populated by dazed survivors, unburied bodies and visions of wandering, moaning ghosts. The region seems to have avoided mass starvation and epidemic, and people are rebuilding their precarious lives in this vast and often flooded marshland where the margin between survival and death has always been thin. Within that thin margin, recent visitors say, many of the survivors seem to have lost their spark of life, and some of the dead seem not yet to have disappeared as they haunt the minds of those they left behind. "There is a weariness in people's eyes here," said a photographer who has been chronicling the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, which struck on May 3. He spoke on condition of anonymity because access to the region is forbidden to foreign journalists. "There's a lost feeling that you get," he said. "People are physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted. Some of them don't have the strength to start over." After an international furor over the government's refusal to admit foreign relief workers, a tightly controlled system has been put in place, and aid is reaching much of the area, where the United Nations says 2.4 million people were affected. The cyclone left 138,000 people dead or missing and 800,000 homeless, according to UN figures, after tremendous winds and a storm surge that resembled a tsunami. It leveled most of the fragile thatch homes in its path, uprooted trees, swept away the livestock and fishing boats that provided a livelihood and polluted many rice fields with salt. For those fields that survived, this year's planting season has now passed, and experts say it may be more than a year before many people see their next decent harvest. Although some houses are being rebuilt and some fields are being worked, the delta remains a vista of ruin and debris, where human and animal bones and the last decomposing bodies still cluster at the edges of waterways. Fantastical tales circulate among the survivors, the photographer said, weaving a tapestry of stories from this world and the next. There is the tale of the boy who survived by clinging to the back of a crocodile, and the story of the boatload of people stranded at low tide who sat waiting on the silt for the water to rise, surrounded by stranded corpses. There is the story of the mother who was reunited with her baby after it was swept away in a washtub, and the story of the woman who gave birth as the cyclone hit and pulled her baby from the water by its umbilical cord. And there are the stories of wandering ghosts, whose cries for help can be heard at night in haunted places that no villager dares to enter. Among these phantoms and traumas, international relief workers have become the survivors' lifeline, delivering aid to all but the most remote parts of the delta. More than 1,800 visas have been issued to these workers, aid officials say, though access to the hard-hit delta is slowed by an ever-more-complicated process of permissions and paperwork. By now, most survivors have received aid, said Andrew Kirkwood, country director for the aid group Save the Children. "But very few people have received enough assistance to get them through the next three months, and almost no one has received enough assistance to enable them to rebuild their lives." He said the reconstruction of schools, clinics and other infrastructure, which should be well underway by now, still lagged because of delays in delivering basic emergency assistance. The xenophobic military junta that holds Burma in its grip prevented large-scale foreign aid deliveries for the first three crucial weeks after the cyclone, then loosened its controls only gradually and partially. It never did allow US and French naval vessels to bring in tons of aid and equipment. But despite the early demands from around the world that the Burmese government permit open deliveries of aid, the United Nations says that nearly half the assistance pledged by foreign donors has yet to appear. Recently it said it had received $339 million in international donations, a shortfall of $300 million. Link to full article. May expire in future. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=69017372 noreply@blogger.com (Kale) 2008-08-26T14:00:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68929991 Economic hardships have forced a growing number of survivors of Cyclone Nargis to leave their homes in rural parts of the Irrawaddy delta to seek assistance in Rangoon and other urban centers, accordi... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:48:57 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68929991 2008-08-25T16:48:57Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68914039 BANGKOK : Nearly four months after the cyclone, the Irrawaddy delta in Myanmar is a flat, dark expanse of ruin populated by dazed survivors, unburied bodies and visions of wandering, moaning ghosts. ... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:21:04 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68914039 2008-08-25T14:21:04Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68890334 Nearly four months after the Myanmar delta was devastated by Cyclone Nargis, many of the people there feel haunted by the dead and uncertain of their future. Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:05:48 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68890334 2008-08-25T14:05:48Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68885892 Yangon- James Bond actor Daniel Craig will donate about 12,000 dollars to buy new boats for a group of fishermen in Irrawaddy delta that was ravaged by Cyclone Nargis in May, a local media report said Monday. Craig will donate four sea-going vessels ... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:42:54 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68885892 2008-08-25T11:42:54Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68740772 Chiang Mai - With the last of aid flight flying into Burma on Friday, the United Nations World Food Programme said, it is closing Thailand's Don Mueang airbase as an air bridge for aid supplies into t... Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:58:10 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68740772 2008-08-23T15:58:10Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68719149 Bangkok - Thai Foreign Minister Tej Bunnag left for an official three-day visit to Myanmar Saturday with plans to meet with Prime Minister General Thein Sein, government officials said. Tej, who was a... Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:35:42 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68719149 2008-08-23T11:35:42Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68705732 Bangkok - Thai Foreign Minister Tej Bunnag left for an official three-day visit to Myanmar Saturday with plans to meet with Prime Minister General Thein Sein, government officials said. Tej, who was appointed Thailand's foreign minister on July 27, w... Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:21:53 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68705732 2008-08-23T10:21:53Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68649932 The final UN relief supply flight for Burma took off from Bangkok’s Don Mueang International Airport on Friday—the last of more than 230 operated by the UN’s World Food Programme following Cyclo... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:30:30 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68649932 2008-08-22T15:30:30Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68585884 Bangkok, Aug 22 : The UN World Food Programme (WFP) Friday shut down its 'relief air bridge' to Myanmar after delivering four million tonnes of cargo from Bangkok to the victims of Cyclone Nargis. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:44:25 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68585884 2008-08-22T07:44:25Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68579974 BANGKOK - The last UN aid flight taking supplies to Myanmar's cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy Delta has taken off from its base in Thailand, the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement Friday. Bangkok's Don Mueang airport has been used as a staging post for aid supplies since May 24, three weeks after Cyclone Nargis hit leaving 138,000 Myanmar people dead or missing and a further 2.4 million in desperate need of aid. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:53:50 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68579974 2008-08-22T06:53:50Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68573273 Bangkok - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday shut down its relief air bridge to Myanmar after delivering 4 million tons of cargo from Bangkok to the victims of Cyclone Nargis. Thai authorities were quick to offer Don Mueang, Bangkok's old ... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:49:50 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68573273 2008-08-22T05:49:50Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68551714 Burma’s economic troubles have been a boon to human traffickers in recent months, keeping them busy at a time of year when wet conditions traditionally slow the flow of migrants across the border in... Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:46:13 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68551714 2008-08-21T19:46:13Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68333849 Myanmar's official news agency says five members of a family and a guest have been killed by a landslide caused by torrential rains in northern Myanmar. The Myanmar News Agency said on Wednesday th... Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:09:48 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68333849 2008-08-20T07:09:48Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68298263 U.N. special envoy Ibrahim Gambari toured Burma's cyclone-struck Irrawaddy Delta Tuesday to observe recovery and reconstruction efforts.Gambari's five-day visit to Burma this week is his first since C... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:01:24 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68298263 2008-08-19T23:01:24Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68273416 New Delhi - Burmese Members of Parliament in exile on Tuesday called on fellow parliamentarians at the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly in Singapore, to allow them to become members of the group as ... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:20:42 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68273416 2008-08-19T18:20:42Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68273426 New Delhi – Coming to the aid of farmers in cyclone-hit regions to help them in planting paddy and to rebuild their lives, the United Nations Development Programme has begun providing cash grants of... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:20:41 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/search/Irrawaddy+delta?rinfoid=68273426 2008-08-19T18:20:41Z