DVB speaks to Sa Naing Naing, recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal.
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Labutta locals hold Cyclone Nargis remembrance service
Activists and locals in the Irrawaddy delta town of Labutta held a multi-faith prayer on Friday in commemoration of the Cyclone Nargis tragedy which ravaged the delta on this day in 2008, leaving up to 140,000 dead and some 2 million homeless.
Nargis naval stand off?
Cable reveals US source claimed a senior general believed Russian navy was to send war-ships to confront US vessels in the Bay of Bengal after cyclone Nargis and tried to hide massive death toll
Paranoia, egotism fueled Nargis death toll
Cables reveal knee-jerk responses by a paranoic Than Shwe and his sidekick as he watched the situation in the cyclone-stricken delta unravel
Aid drops to pre-Nargis levels
Burma now receiving lower overseas development assistance than Cambodia, despite having a population three times the size
Burmese junta ‘politicising post-Nargis aid’
Human Rights Watch report criticises ongoing restrictions on aid workers in Burma and calls for renewed international pressure on the junta