mmhan's gone

Update 8:

• On 10th May, nearly a hundred of Myanmar students of Singapore Polytechnic collected donations campus wide and managed to collect as much as SGD 13,000. Singapore Polytechnic students and officials are working with other officials to get permission to collect donation island wide.
• The total amount of donation received from the donation collection points in Singapore is SGD 87625.40 and 200 Euro Dollars. [more details @ AungSaYarPyi in Burmese]
• UN estimates 80,000 death toll, Myanmar's media broadcast 20,000 where's the rest? An article at Guardian by anonymous writer will show you.

Update 7:

• After being slammed by several diplomats at U.N session Myanmar ambassador promised that "We are ready to speed up and strengthen our relief effort. We will accept aid from any corner.". One more U.S plane with relief supplies is scheduled to land Myanmar on Monday. [via CNN]


• The national referendum has started in many regions of Myanmar despite thousands of dying people and fearful diseases spreading around in the cyclone affected area.


• Myanmar Government is still exporting rice via Thilawa Port, the main port of Myanmar while feeding the cyclone victims rations of rotten rice. [via Los Angeles Times]

Update 6:

• UN has warned Myanmar that another storm is likely to be on its way to Myanmar. It'll not be as strong as Nargis, instead it could bring 7-8 days of fairly strong rainfall. Some of the areas in Irrawady delta are to be worried for the lack of shelter and provisions. [via Daily Telegraph]

Update 5:

• China, Indonesia, Vietnam, South Africa & Russia has rejected France's suggestion to invoke U.N's "responsibility to protect" doctrine to enter Myanmar without waiting for Myanmar Government's permission. [via Reuters]
• Some disturbing images of the villagers found dead after the cyclone can be found on Picasa Album of Shin Ye Htut.
• Responding to the rejection of other countries, an online petition has been started to urge UN to step in.

Update 4:

• In the evening of 9th May, the officials of Singapore Polytechnic gathered and briefed SP Myanmar students and other interested parties in donation collection. It's been decided that on 10th May, groups of volunteers will participate in campus wide donation collection in Singapore Polytechnic. The officials of SP are now working on getting permission to be able to send out volunteers of Singapore Polytechnic to collect donations from residence of Singapore in high traffic areas such as Orchard Road or Jurong East.
  
• The donation drive in Singapore has now been named "Operation Nargis" and now it's planning to give necessary training to send Myanmar national volunteers back to Myanmar for relief aid, as they don't need visas to go back to Myanmar. Operation Nargis has been working closely with UNICEF, ILO & World Vision and also volunteering for Mercy Relief in Donation collection. It's been said that the volunteers will be working closely with Unicef once they're in Myanmar. [via CNA]

Update 3:

• A well-known regional Myanmar Blogger, Nyi Lynn Seck, from Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar, has volunteered to go to the affected regions of Irrawady Delta to distribute food, medicine and other relief supplies. Please see the contact details at his post.
  
• US aid flight to Myanmar has been canceled. It was not clear if there had been a miscommunication or whether Myanmar Government has withdrawn the permission. [via Daily Telegraph]
• Singapore based Myanmar citizens has sent the first batch of relief supplies back to Myanmar [via Global Voices Online]
• First aid flight from Italy has arrived to Burma and three more are expected to land on Thursday. [via USA today]
  

ေကာလဟာလ သတိထားၾကရန္ (Revised)

သူငယ္ခ်င္းတစ္ေယာက္မွ Forward လုပ္လုိက္ေသာ SMS တစ္ခုအရ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကို ေနာက္နာရီ ၈၀ အတြင္း မုန္တုိင္း၀င္မည္ဟုဆိုကာ မိဘ ေဆြမ်ိဳးမ်ားကို သတိေပးရန္ ဆုိထားပါသည္။ ထုိကိစၥမွာ အေျခအျမစ္မရွိေသာ ေကာလဟာလတစ္ခုသာျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ မည္သည့္မုန္တုိင္းမွ အိႏိၵယပင္လယ္တြင္း မရွိေတာ့ေၾကာင္း ေျပာလုိပါတယ္။ [Source] Message ပို႕လုိက္သူကိုလည္း ျပန္ကာ အျဖစ္မွန္ကို သတိေပးၾကပါရန္၊ မီးေလာင္ေလပင့္လုပ္လုိသူတစ္ဦးမွ စတင္ကာ ပို႕လုိက္ျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သတိေပးလုိက္ရပါတယ္။

သုိ႕ေသာ္.. "ေနာက္ cyclone တစ္ခု Bay of Bengal မွာထပ္ျဖစ္ႏုိင္ေၾကာင္း" ကို သတင္းဌာနေလးတစ္ခုမွ ေၾကျငာထားတာကိုေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။ [via Sifty News] သတင္းအရ ထို cyclone ကို ABC cyclone ဟုနာမည္တပ္မည္ျဖစ္ျပီး ထုိ cyclone သည္ အင္အားျပင္းလာႏုိင္ျခင္းရွိသည္ မရွိသည္ႏွင့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသုိ႕၀င္ေရာက္ႏုိင္သည္ မႏုိင္သည္ကုိ ယခုအခ်ိန္တြင္ မည္သို႕မွ ခန္႕မွန္းလုိ႕မရႏုိင္ပါ။ အေ၀းၾကီးကို ၾကိဳတင္ခန္႕မွန္းထားေသာ forecast ျဖစ္သျဖင့္ စိတ္ပူရန္မလုိေသးေၾကာင္း ေျပာလုိပါတယ္။

Update 1: (revised)

• Recently there's been a circulation of SMS messages that says "Another cyclone is coming in 80 hours. Inform your family and relatives" in Singapore. It is absolutely bullshit and there's no storm. [Source]. If you received such message, please let the sender know that it is not true and let them know that this is originated from someone who wanna create unrest between the population.
  
  However there's a report from a news station that "At least one cyclonic storm may develop from the depressions in the Bay of Bengal this month". [via Sifty News]. According to the report, the cyclone will be named ABC and the intensity of the storm can't be established at the moment since this report is a very-long forecast.
  
  

Update 2:

• Indian navy vessels and planes from Japan, Thailand, Singapore and Laos and Bangladesh had arrived in recent days with medicine, candles, instant noodles, raincoats and other relief supplies. U.N's mass airlift from Dubai, Dhaka and Thailand with 50 tons of biscuits will arrive Yangon early Thursday. [via AFP]
• Meanwhile, many other aid flights containing relief supplies of up to 45 tons are still waiting for Myanmar Government's to allow them to go in.
  
• On Burma United blog, a post has been posted in covering instructions of helping people who suffered the cyclone [ Link in Burmese]
  
• Singapore Polytechnic has started donation collection from students and staffs of SP to help out Myanmar. [ Link ]
• ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႕ Singapore Polytechnic မွလည္း ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအတြက္ အလွဴမ်ား စတင္ေကာက္ခံေနျပီဟု သိရပါတယ္။ [ Link ]
• ႏုိင္ငံတကာက အလွဴမ်ားလည္း ေပးၾကပါတယ္။ Visa မ်ားလည္းေလွ်ာက္ၾကပါတယ္။ အခုေတာ့ US ရဲ႕အကူအညီကို လက္ခံမယ္လုိ႕ သတင္းထြက္လာပါျပီ [via CNA] ဘာေတြဆက္ျဖစ္မလဲဆိုတာေတာ့ ဆုေတာင္းရင္းနဲ႕ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ရေတာ့မွာပါပဲ။

• Lin Let Donation Collection Point - S$ 1761.30


• Sin Myanmar Collection Point - S$ 10247.00


• Tha Pyay Nu Collection Point - S$2821.00

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