Yangon - The Council of the European Union should use their meeting in Brussels Thursday to back a call to bring Myanmar's junta chief to be tried in the international court for crimes against huma
Yangon - Myanmar's state-run media disclosed Wednesday that the government has issued visas to a total of 911 foreign disaster relief workers since Cyclone Nargis hit the country on May 2-3, in apparent effort to counter criticisms of hindering the aid effort.
"Altogether 911 persons have been permitted to enter the country from 5 May to 5 June," said The New Light of Myanmar, a government mouthpiece.
According to the newspaper, visas have been granted to 458 people working for the United Nations and non-governmental organizations, 357 to relief workers from the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and 96 foreigners attending a UN-ASEAN donors meeting held last month.
Yangon, June 3 : United Sikhs Myanmar Disaster Relief, an aid group based in Malaysia, has been distributing rations to the victims of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar through 70 local volunteers.