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Myanmar Junta Still Bars Full Access To Foreign Aid: Thai FM
Bernama – May 26, 2008
Myanmar’s military government has yet not allowed free access of international aid to reach cyclone victims insisting on case-by-case consideration Thai Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama said on Sunday as an international conference pledged to donate money for some 2. 4 million survivors. Speaking via telephone from Yangon the Thailand news agency (TNA) quoted Noppadon as saying that Myanmar told the conference its cyclone-devastated country needs US$10. 7 billion in assistance for long-term reconstruction. fficials of the United Nations the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and 51 countries worldwide met with Myanmar government officials in the country’s commercial hub of Yangon hard-hit along with the country’s Irrawaddy Delta rice bowl in this month’s devastating Cyclone Nargis. However the amount pledged by donor nations was believed to be far short of the amount sought by the junta said the Thai foreign minister. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan and China’s Ambassador to the UN and an array of concerned officials from around the world grappled with Myanmar’s greatest ever natural disaster… However the amount pledged by donor nations was believed to be far short of the amount sought by the junta said the Thai foreign minister. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan and China’s Ambassador to the UN and an array of concerned officials from around the world grappled with Myanmar’s greatest ever natural disaster. According to the United Nations Information Service the Yangon conference at the Sedona Hotel approved creation of a Yangon-based Tripartite Core Group comprising representatives from the Government of Myanmar ASEAN and UN as a working mechanism to coordinate facilitate and monitor the flow of international assistance into the country. Myanmar’s Prime Minister Lt-Gen. Thein Sein told the one-day conference that international aid “with no strings attached” was welcome but only civilian vessels would be allowed in the relief operation. “Relief supplies can be transported by land air or sea. But if relief supplies must be transported by water civilian vessels can come in through Yangon port” the Myanmar prime minister said.
Richard Neely and Allyson Dalton in dive rescue bidding war
NEWS.com.au – May 26, 2008
article-tools –> May 26 2008 12:00am BRITISH diver Richard Neely and partner Allyson Dalton have been accused of flouting a dive briefing as a $250000 bidding war broke out for the rights to their miraculous story of survival. And Mr Neely’s father Stuart in the UK said this was the third time his son had cheated death in four years. He had been caught up in the tsunami that hit Asia on Boxing Day 2004 while working as a diving instructor in Thailand but escaped his hotel to reach higher ground. Later his dive boat sank off Thailand and he was forced to tread water for eight hours through the night until he was picked up by another boat. The Briton and his American girlfriend spent 19 hours adrift in shark-infested waters off Queensland’s Airlie Beach. The couple’s friend Danielle Scott-Flanders denied they had done anything wrong after suggestions they might have ignored a dive safety briefing. "They inflated their safety sausage.
Earnings Calls: rient-Express Hotels First Quarter Earnings Call
123jump.com – May 26, 2008
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