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Kyaw Thu honoured for funeral work
Kyaw Thu, founder of the Rangoon Free Funeral Service Society (FFSS) and formerly a renowned actor, has been awarded the 2015 Ramon Magsaysay Award.
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Red Cross ups aid effort in Kunlong
Red Cross representatives arrive in Kunlong to assist the 5,000 civilians displaced by ongoing fighting in the Kokang region.
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Celebrities, FFSS deliver relief to Hlegu flood victims
Actresses Yadana Khin, Thinzar Wint Kyaw and Khin Wint Wah team up with Free Funeral Service Society to deliver relief supplies to victims of flooding in Hlegu, a town 40km north of Rangoon.
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Commentary: Who will bell the cat in Burma?
Htet Aung Kyaw Jun 5, 2008 (DVB), Many Burmese, this correspondent included, were disappointed when the US announced it was withdrawing the USS Essex group of ships bearing aid supplies[…]
Who will bell the cat in Burma?
Htet Aung Kyaw Jun 5, 2008 (DVB), Many Burmese, this correspondent included, were disappointed when the US announced it was withdrawing the USS Essex group of ships bearing aid supplies[…]
How the world is failing Burma
A Lwin May 23, 2008 (DVB), On 2 May, Cyclone Nargis hit the southern part of Irrawaddy division, passed through Rangoon and dissipated near the Burma-Thailand border. Fortunately for me,[…]
Commentary: How the world is failing Burma
A Lwin May 23, 2008 (DVB), On 2 May, Cyclone Nargis hit the southern part of Irrawaddy division, passed through Rangoon and dissipated near the Burma-Thailand border. Fortunately for me,[…]
Burma needs humanitarian intervention: NCGUB
May 23, 2008 (DVB), Humanitarian intervention is needed if the Burmese regime continues to obstruct the delivery of international aid to cyclone victims, the prime minister of the Burmese government-in-exile[…]
Food aid to refugees faces cuts
Dec 6, 2007 (DVB), A humanitarian agency working on the Thai-Burma border has been forced to make cuts in food provisions to Burmese refugees because of funding shortfalls. The Thailand[…]
Analysis – Bridging Burma’s humanitarian divide
May 16, 2007 (DVB)
