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One year on from Cyclone Nargis and the figures are pretty disturbing: half a million people without proper housing, 350,000 still requiring food aid from the World Food Program and incomes down about 50 percent on pre-cyclone figures. The first anniversary of Nargis, which killed almost 140,000 people in the Ayeyarwady Delta last year, also [...]

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Bangkok Pundit has put in some leg-work to help us all understand the recent visit that the BBC’s Bangkok office received from the boys in brown.  The Pundit’s post is well worth a look for the many New Mandala readers interested in issues of press freedom in Southeast Asia.

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As the one-year anniversary of Cyclone Nargis passed, there was much to contemplate. The international media and the Burmese-run journals have printed memorials and analyses of the political situation in Myanmar one year post-Nargis. Up until now, the international media has painted a predisposed and regrettably misleading portrait of relief and humanitarian assistance in the Irawaddy Delta [...]

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