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UN says much of Myanmar cyclone aid is lost
As much as 25 percent of cyclone relief aid in Myanmar is being lost because of the military government's foreign exchange system, a United Nations official said Friday.  Farrow: nations should protest China at OlympicsMia Farrow said Friday the world should use next month's Olympic Games as a platform to demand that China end its support for Myanmar's junta.  Olympian PR bout under way in WashingtonIn an air-conditioned room in the Chinese Embassy, a vice minister from Beijing chastises Americans for their "very limited" understanding of violent anti-government protests in Tibet.  Cyclone-battered fisheries worsen Myanmar's painNo matter how much she loved the river and sea that once provided her family's daily food, Tin Tin Latt now just wants to stay away from the water that widowed her, killed two of her children and destroyed the family's livelihood.  Myanmar opposes investigative powersMyanmar's junta has indicated it will oppose any effort to give a Southeast Asian human rights body the power to monitor or investigate rights violations in the region, diplomats said Tuesday.  Suu Kyi's detention to last until 2009Myanmar's foreign minister has said pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi can be kept in detention legally until late 2009 and not until December this year as reported earlier, Singapore officials said Tuesday.  Myanmar cyclone damage estimated at $4 billionSurvivors of Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis face a "second emergency" unless relief efforts receive an influx of $1 billion in international aid over the next three years, according to the first full assessment of the disaster released Monday.  Republicans hoping for a grand old party in Minn.Republicans are counting on a glitch-free convention to help lift the party's sagging morale and boost John McCain's presidential prospects when they assemble in this picturesque city on the Mississippi River in six weeks.
Myanmar appeals for more foreign aid to help victims of Cyclone Nargis, but gives no figure
Myanmar is appealing for more foreign aid to help victims of Cyclone Nargis.  Paris concert presses for Colombia hostage releaseFormer hostage Ingrid Betancourt took the stage and shook her hips to a Colombian superstar's guitar riffs, leading the crowd in chants of "Freedom for all!" at a concert Sunday dedicated to captives held by Colombia's FARC rebel group.
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