VOA – Burma’s government is denying entry to helicopters and relief supplies from U.S. Navy ships waiting offshore, near the Irawaddy Delta. Relief groups say as many as two million people remain in desperate need of food, water, medicines and other relief supplies following the storm on May 3 that killed nearly 78,000 people.
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Daily Archives: May 17, 2008
French Navy – Burma Denounces Warship
Bangkok Post – The Burmese military junta showed signs of paranoia on Friday, denouncing a French naval ship packed with 1,500 tonnes of food aid, with aircraft capable of delivering it, as a “warship” standing off its coast. France said a demand to deliver the aid through Rangoon airport was nonsense.
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Royal Navy – Defence chiefs have last-minute doubts about £4bn carriers
The Times – They were meant to be the pride and joy of Britainís 21st-century fleet, an emblem of its pre-eminence as a military and diplomatic power. But last night it emerged that the imminent announcement of the commissioning of two aircraft carriers at a total cost of £4 billion has left some of the countryís senior military leaders deeply unhappy.
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