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Burma’s ruling military junta plans to push ahead with a referendum on a new constitution even after a devastating cyclone killed thousands of people
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Burma junta calls for rice planting help
Military rulers have appealed for international help to get its cyclone-hit Irrawaddy Delta farmers back to their paddy fields, amid concerns about future food shortages
Burma’s diaspora converts anger to aid
Relief sent through informal channels
Burma to allow in foreign aid workers
Regime acknowledges need for outside help
Asian nations join in Burma ‘mercy coalition’
Bid to address growing humanitarian crisis
Burmese junta pressed by US on relief flow
UN warns of disease outbreak without more aid
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Holding the line: Burma’s junta subdues its people – and the world
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Disasters and dictatorships
Burma has been pledged tens of millions of dollars and expertise, yet the generals act as if they would be doing the world a favour by accepting them, writes Christopher Caldwell
Burma’s tragedy
Let us at least hope this cyclone undermines the junta, whose response to this tragedy has already earned it a place in the annals of infamy
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