Filed under: Events, Uncategorized | Tags: benefit, east manor buffet & restaurant, elmhurst, Events, ko nge, queens
MYANMAR CYCLONE NARGIS BENEFIT DINNER & LIVE SHOW
<<Sponsored by Ko Nge>>
Time: 6:30pm – 10:00pm
Date: Saturday, June 14th 2008
Place: East Manor Buffet & Restaurant, 79-17 Albion Avenue, Elmhurst
(just off Queens Blvd.), NY 11373
718-803-1111
Contributing Artists
- May Sweet
- Mie Mie Win Pe
- Ni Ni Win Shwe
- Yadana Oo
- Sandayar Khin Nu Nu
Backed up by full live band -
Contributing Musicians
- Khaing Myint
- Zan Mra
- Paul Lahpai
- Luminn (Stereo)
- Thein Zaw Lwin)
Weekend Full Dinner Buffet Menu will be served.
Ticket prices – $60, $50 (includes one free T-shirt),
PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED DIRECTLY TO DISASTER VICTIMS
FOR TICKETS – PLEASE CONTACT -
Ko Nge – (917) 217-1559
Peter Lwin – (917) 551-0314
–Karen
Filed under: International Response, Latest News, Uncategorized | Tags: ASEAN, ban ki-moon, coalition of mercy, criminal neglect, cyclone Margis, irrawaddy delta, Médecins Sans Frontières, relief, robert gates, Than Shwe, world food programme
A month of misery
(First para of the article)
WHEN the United Nations’ secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, met Myanmar’s reclusive leader, General Than Shwe, on May 23rd, he secured a promise of free access for foreign aid workers to the millions of victims of cyclone Nargis. But more than a month after the cyclone, many have still not been reached. Access to the devastated Irrawaddy delta is only slightly freer.
Read the full article here.
–Divya
Filed under: Death Toll and missing, International Response, Latest News, Uncategorized | Tags: Death Toll and missing, international herald tribune, relief camps, simon montlake
Burmese Forced from Relief Camps
By Simon Montlake
Bangkok, Thailand – Aid agencies trying to help cyclone survivors in Burma (Myanmar) are increasingly bumping up against what appears to be a coordinated government drive to close temporary relief camps in towns and send villagers back home, sometimes by force, to fend for themselves.
Read the full article here.
–Divya
Filed under: International Response, Lessons and Theory, Opinion/Editorial, Photos, Uncategorized | Tags: David Rieff, iraq, law of unintended consequences, new york times magazine, responsibility to protect
This week’s New York Time’s Magazine carries an article by writer and political analyst, David Rieff, entitled ” Humanitarian Vanities.” The question he poses is a simple one – What does the urge to intervene amount to?
One of his main points seems to be that there is a “law of unintended consequences” operating when a country or set of countries decide to intervene in another on humanitarian grounds. Regime change is never just that – it comes with baggage and unforseen challenges that the intervening country/countries have historically seemed ill equipped to handle. Case in point – Iraq.
Read the full article here.
–Divya
