Very busy with Vesak day and what so ever.
Myanmar agrees to aid effort led by ASEAN
*good news lay, everybody smile please.
MYANMAR agreed at an emergency regional meeting here Monday to let its Southeast Asian neighbours coordinate foreign assistance for cyclone victims, Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo said.
The Myanmar government estimates losses from the disaster at more than 10 billion US dollars (S$13.66 billion), Mr Yeo told journalists after meeting counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), including Myanmar's Nyan Win.
'The foreign ministers have agreed to establish an Asean-led coordinating mechanism' for the assistance effort, Mr Yeo said.
Asean will work with the United Nations to hold an 'international pledging conference' in Myanmar's main city Yangon on May 25 to pool aid for victims of the disaster, the Singapore minister said.
Myanmar also agreed to accept medical teams from all Asean countries to take part in the relief efforts, he added.
*finally!! tsk tsk tsk.
On the other hand,
Myanmar begins three days of mourning
YANGON - MYANMAR launched three days of official mourning on Tuesday for more than 133,000 people left dead or missing by Cyclone Nargis, lowering national flags to half mast at 9.00am (10.30am Singapore time).
The mourning period is one of the first demonstrations of public grief since the tropical storm ravaged swathes of this impoverished nation 18 days ago, leaving about 2.4 million survivors desperately in need of aid.
The reclusive junta leader Than Shwe spent a second consecutive day on Monday touring the disaster zone, venturing into the hardest-hit regions of the Irrawaddy Delta for the first time.
Until Sunday, the senior general had not made a public appearance or remark about the disaster
Want to see pictures of the cyclone?
www.burmachannel.com (contain a lot of dead people pictures. beware)
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