Burma Update: June 21, 2008

News from Burmese Media

Kachin News Group: Junta yet to punish army officers for raping Kachin schoolgirls
Mizzima News: Change of guard in Burmese junta
Mizzima News: WFP: fund crisis may halt airlifting relief supplies in Burma
Mizzima News: Junta plans to launch new lottery
Mizzima News: NLD meeting monitored by authorities
Narinjara News: Rakhaing Thungran Festival to be Held in New York
Narinjara News: Daw Suu's 63rd Birthday Honored in Taungup
The Irrawaddy: UN Appeals for Funding to Keep Burma Aid Helicopters Flying
The Irrawaddy: Suu Kyi’s Birthday Celebrated on Capitol Hill

News from Regional/International Media

The Washington Post: Frustrated Burmese Organize Aid Forays
Thaindian News: Myanmar to build low-cost houses for cyclone victims
The New York Times: Myanmar: Without More Money, U.N. Says It May End Aid Delivery
Xinhua: UN anti-dengue-fever campaign to start in Myanmar
News.Com.Au: Soldiers told the time is right to topple junta
China Daily: China, Myanmar, Daewoo consortium sign gas pacts in Myanmar
The Star Online: Funds to boost relief efforts
The Star Online: Students reach out to natural disaster victims

Opinion/Other

The Irrawaddy: Burma’s Bureaucratic Abyss [Opinion] - Yeni
Shan Herald Agency for News: Nursing the Shan [Article] - Antonio Graceffo
Telegraph: Myanmar cyclone: Plague of rats devastates Burma villages [Article] - Nick Meo
The Washington Post: Let Us Now Praise Coups [Outlook & Opinions] - Paul Collier

Statement/Press Release

Relief Web: Friday baby; UNDP shelters new life after Cyclone Nargis

Report/Briefer
Shan Herald Agency for News: Weekly Diary, No. 306 (14 – 20 June 2008)

Multimedia


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