Burma Update: May 6, 2008

News from Burmese Media

Democratic Voice of Burma: UN Says Several Hundred Thousand Need Water and Shelter
Narinjara News: Another Cyclone Likely to Strike
Narinjara News: Fish Cargo Sinks in Nargis
Narinjara News: Arakanese Diaspora Honor Revolutionary Monks
Independent Mon News Agency: Cyclone Damage in Mon State Minimal
Shan Herald Agency for News: Local USDA Secretary Assassinated
Shan Herald Agency for News: Junta Officials Say Shan Leaders Participated in the Charter Drafting
Kachin News Group: Junta Threatens Civilians in KIO to Cast the "Yes" Vote
Irrawaddy News Magazine: WHO Says Burma Faces Major Health Worries
Irrawaddy News Magazine: Laura Bush Comments ‘Inappropriate’ Says Analyst
Irrawaddy News Magazine: Residents Say 22 Villages Destroyed in Laputta Township
Irrawaddy News Magazine: Burmese Officials Go AWOL to Search for Relatives
Irrawaddy News Magazine: UN Aid Has Yet to Reach Burma
Irrawaddy News Magazine: Referendum Vote to be Held on Saturday
Irrawaddy News Magazine: Thailand Drops Rice Cartel Plan, Citing Humanitarian Concerns
Irrawaddy News Magazine: Divine Intervention?
Mizzima News: Security Agencies Put on High Alert for Referendum

News from Regional/International Media

The New York Times: Aid Flows to Myanmar as Death Toll Rises
The Nation: HM Sends His Condolences to Burma
Bangkok Post: Thailand Gives $100,000 to Burma Relief
Bangkok Post: Aid Blockade
UNIC Yangon: Secretary-General Deeply Saddened by Loss of Life after Cyclone Hits Myanmar; Says United Nations Prepared to Assist, Mobilize International Aid
International Herald Tribune: Cyclone Survivors Struggle to Fix Homes and Find Supplies
The White House: President Bush Signs H.R. 4286, Congressional Gold Medal: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
World Bank: World Bank Group President's Statement in the Aftermath of Myanmar Cyclone
Manchester Evening News: Brown Pledges to Help Burma
Washington Post: Bush Urges Myanmar to Accept U.S. Disaster Teams
The Times: Aid Workers Fear Burma Cyclone Deaths will Top 50,000
Channel News Asia: India Says It Gave 48-Hour Cyclone Warning to Myanmar
People's Daily Online: Singapore Ready to Send Rescue Teams, Doctors to Myanmar
The Earth Times: Taiwan to Send Aid to Cyclone Victims in Myanmar
Xinhua Online: China Offers $1 m Worth of Aid to Cyclone-Hit Myanmar
The Earth Times: Greece to Send Medical and Food Aid to Myanmar

Multimedia

Irrawaddy News Magazine: Rangoon Residents Take Clean Up Efforts

Opinion/Other

Mizzima News: Eyewitness Account from Rangoon
Irrawaddy News Magazine: Relief Effort should be Burma’s No 1 Priority [Commentary] - Kyaw Zwa Moe
Asian Tribune: Burma's Military too Slow to React to International Aid after Cyclone Nargis - Zin Linn
The Sunday Morning Herald: Generals Show They are Unfit to Govern [Analysis] - Aung Hla Tun
The Australian: A Desperate Situation
Open Democracy: Burma: the Cyclone and the Referendum - Aung Zaw
BBC News: Disaster Tests Burma's Junta - Kate McGeown

Statement/Press Release

Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma): Supplementary Information about Death in Insein Prison
The Burma Campaign UK: Burma Campaign Welcomes UK¹s £5m Aid Pledge for Burma
The Burma Campaign UK: UK must Provide Additional Aid for Cyclone Victims
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma): 36 Prisoners Killed in Insein prison
US Campaign for Burma: Activists Call for US Government to Provide Emergency Assistance to Cyclone Victims in Burma
Save the Children: Thousands Homeless across Myanmar as Save the Children Responds to Cyclone Nargis
Relief Web: USAID Assists Burmese People in Cyclone Aftermath

Report/Briefer

UNIC Yangon: Second Situation Report on Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, Dated 5 May 2008
ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus: Myanmar/Burma News Update (Edition 86)
Shan Herald Agency for News: Conflict and Health - Dr. Voravit Suwanvanichkij