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‘All aid workers’ can come: Sen-Gen
Myanmar has agreed to allow “all aid workers” to stage a relief effort for cyclone survivors, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said after meeting Myanmar’s top leader, Senior General Than Shwe, on Friday.
 
Relief workers allowed into Myanmar
“The senior general listened carefully and I’m optimistic that we all can make a lot of progress. It’s agreed. The Myanmar leader said to me that all aid workers can come in. I’m satisfied that he committed to it. It’s great news,”
 
Space-age foods save lives
You won’t find Plumpy’nut and BP-5 on your supermarket shelves. But the space-age foods have become one of the world’s best weapons to fight hunger after disasters like the Myanmar cyclone.
 
NGOs create safe havens for children orphaned by storm
“We think 25,000 to 30,000 children in the affected areas were acutely malnourished before the cyclone. Those children need to be fed properly within a couple of weeks of the cyclone,”
FAO calls for $10m aid from international community
THE United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on May 9 called for US$10 million in aid from the international community to help farmers in cyclone-battered Delta region in Myanmar prepare for the upcoming growing season.
 
UN to send 220,000 condoms to Myanmar

The United Nations will send nearly a quarter of a million condoms into cyclone-hit Myanmar to help needy survivors with no access to contraceptives, a UN official said Tuesday.
 
WFP overcomes logistics hurdles
RELIEF efforts in the Ayeyarwady delta will receive a massive boost, following the agreement of the government to allow the World Food Program (WFP) to bring in 10 helicopters last week.
 
South Korea contributes $100,000 aid
The donations was handed over by South Korea’s ambassador to Myanmar, Mr Park Key Chong, to Deputy Minister of Finance and Revenue Colonel Hla Thein Swe, according to a statement released by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) on May 21.
 
Billboarders count cyclone costs
Cyclone Nargis levied a heavy toll on Yangon’s billboard advertising, which previously offered all manner of products along main roads and intersections. But after the storm cleared on May 3, most of the city’s biggest and most easily recognised billboards lay in ruins.
 
Gem industry to boost China trade
MYANMAR gem traders are looking to deepen their penetration of the Chinese market as they prepare to participate in the 5th China-ASEAN Expo held in Nanning next October, says the CAEXPO secretariat.
 
Buyers pick LPG over charcoal
“Until the end of last month, I generally used charcoal and only sometimes used our gas stove. At that point it was cheaper for me to do this but now I’m using gas for the same reason,”
 

Hlaing Tharyar IZ rebuilding underway

MYANMAR’s industrial capacity was dealt a heavy blow by cyclone Nargis, which inflicted total or partial destruction on 70 percent of Yangon’s 2500 factories, depriving most of them of electrical power.
 
In Myanmar, too, people are gradually accepting that the role of the photojournalist is important as the media and photography industries continue their steady development. But in Myanmar there i s still plenty of room for more photojournalists to be plying their trade in the media.
 
I became familiar with photography when I was working as a reporter, when I would also take commercial photographs. It wasn’t strange for me to change career.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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