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  • WHD: People helping people in Myanmar
    4 September 2012 - 3:45pm
    On World Humanitarian Day this year (19 August) we celebrated the most basic principle of humanitarian work: People Helping People. For inspiration, and to remind everyone of the extraordinary things ordinary people are capable of doing, we asked professional aid workers to tell us a story about someone...
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  • Myanmar: water and shelter urgently needed
    31 March 2011 - 11:17am
    On 24 March 2011, an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 on the Richter Scale and 10 km depth struck the southern parts of Shan State in the East of the Union of Myanmar (population: 3,870,921) — approximately 300 miles southeast of Mandalay seismological observatory. It was recorded at 20:29:30 hrs Myanmar...
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  • Earthquake causes casualties and damages in eastern Myanmar
    25 March 2011 - 1:11pm
    On 24 March 2011, an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck the eastern state of Shan in Myanmar, triggering six aftershocks to date and high risk of landslides. The latest official number of casualties has reached 73 deaths and 125 injuries, and an initial rapid assessment conducted by World Vision...
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