‘Silent tsunami’ upsets family life across Asia Dawn | SYDNEY, May 11: From the rice paddies of Asia to the wheat fields of Australia, the soaring price of food is breaking the budgets of the poor and raising the spectres of hunger and unrest, experts warn. | A billion people in Asia are seriously affected by the surging costs of daily staples such as...
Rice crisis a 'silent tsunami' Canada Dot Com | BANGKOK - When cyclone Nargis swept through the Irrawaddy Delta, it shattered both Myanmar's famed rice bowl as well as any hope Asia's rice crisis might abate anytime soon. | It's not that the isolated little state formerly known as Burma grows a significant amount of the world's rice. It's just ...
UN says relief efforts in Myanmar should reach scale of Indian Ocean tsunami International Herald Tribune | : The U.N. said Myanmar faces a catastrophe of monumental proportions unless relief efforts reach the scale of the Indian Ocean tsunami, as soldiers barred foreign aid workers from reaching cyclone survivors in hard-hit areas. | Meanwhile, some vic...
U.N.: Burma relief needs to equal 2004 tsunami aid USA Today Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | YANGON, Burma (AP) — The U.N. said Burma faces a catastrophe of monumental proportions unless relief efforts reach the scale of the Indian Ocean tsunami, as soldiers barred foreign aid wor...
UN says relief efforts in Myanmar should reach scale of Indian Ocean tsunami AOL YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar faces a catastrophe of monumental proportions unless relief efforts reach the scale of the Indian Ocean tsunami, the U.N. said Tuesday, as soldiers barred foreign aid workers from reaching cyclone survivors in hard-hit ...
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Globe faces hunger's 'silent tsunami' The News Tribune LONDON - Ration cards. Genetically modified crops. The end of pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap supermarkets. | These possible solutions to the first global food crisis since World War I...
UN: High food prices unleash silent tsunami Mail Guardian South Africa A "silent tsunami" unleashed by costlier food threatens 100-million people, the United Nations said on Tuesday, but views differed as to how to stop it. | The Asian Development Ban...
World Food Program warns of 'silent tsunami' of hunger Austin American Statesman | LONDON — Ration cards. Genetically modified crops. The end of pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap supermarkets. | Those possible solutions to the first global food crisis since Wor...
Rice crisis a 'silent tsunami' Canada Dot Com | BANGKOK - When cyclone Nargis swept through the Irrawaddy Delta, it shattered both Myanmar's famed rice bowl as well as any hope Asia's rice crisis might abate anytime soon. | It's not that the isolated little state formerly known as Burma grows a ...
Cannes red carpet for tsunami film Sydney Morning Herald | ALISON THOMPSON will go from refugee camp to red carpet this week with a little help from superstar Sean Penn. | The Sydney-born New York-based filmmaker's documentary The Third Wave will screen at Cannes after Penn championed it. | Thompson was ru...
Historians, Not History, Will Judge The U.S.-Iraqi War WorldNews.com Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. | As if history was a god sitting in judgment or something that occurs only in the future, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney claims it will absolve them of their actions and pre-emptive wars in the Middle East. At the same time, the mainstream press and internet chat rooms...
Earthquake dams pose floods risk BBC News | Earthquake survivors in Sichuan province face a serious threat of flooding because of earthquake damage to dams, officials say. | There are cracks on the surface of the Zipingku dam on the Min river, near the epicentre of this week's quake. | The hard-hit city of Dujiangyan, 10km (six miles) away, would be at risk if major problems emerge. | Wate...
