Burma's military junta reports a strong voter turnout for its referendum on a new constitution.
Acording to the regime, preliminary results show nearly 100 percent of voters approved the new constuitution, which critics say will strengthen the junta's iron grip on power. The vote went ahead despite calls by the international community for all resources to go into aid efforts, for hundreds of thousands of cyclone victims. Official figures say around 23,000 people were killed when Ferguson has confidence in Bolton ...
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Deadly S Korea helicopter crash ... cyclone Nargis slammed into the Irrawaddy Delta region last Saturday. United Nations officials fear the actual death toll could be more than 100,000. Foreign aid is trickling into Burma, but scores of international relief workers are stuck in Thailand waiting for visas to be issued. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to intensify contacts with the junta to accelerate aid distribution.
(Deutsche Welle)
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