“I would say, at this point, the children in particular have been pretty resilient,” Mr Hirsch said after visiting World Vision relief areas in Bogale and Junio Island late last week. “In a typical disaster like this you would expect to find more serious illness already.”

U KYAW Sandar is the head of the Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS) in Bogale. He and the 30 to 80 volunteers who work with him wear jackets or t-shirts bearing a symbol that is recognised internationally – the red cross.

“We will make separate compensation payments because so many businesses were affected,” said Dr Mg Maung Thein. “We’ll start by taking care of 60 small industries at the beginning of this month.”

“We have had a very long relationship with Myanmar, and in this time of difficulty we have the chance to lend a helping hand,” said Indonesian charge d’affaires a.i. Philemon Arobaya.

BODIES swaying, the 31 children happily recite the poem in a small room of a building in Pazundaung township. The thanakha on their faces is running with sweat from the heat of the day.

“We will open a centre in each of the four villages of Pyin district, Ngapudaw township, five in Maubin in Ayeyarwady Division and nine in Yangon Division,” said U Myint Swe, the president of the organisation, last week.

“There are an average of six storms in the Bay of Bengal every year but few of them hit Myanmar,” he said. “Of the 1300 storms that have occurred in the bay area in the past 120 years, about 80 have crossed into Myanmar.”

“For example, if you are on the bus and someone is smoking, please do not keep quiet. You have the right to claim that he is breaking the law and his smoke is disturbing you and harming your health,”

“Some drinking water companies couldn’t meet the safety criteria last month because of lack of proper purifying technology, and also because demand for drinking water exceeded supply in the wake of the cyclone,”

“We’ll also explain how the dolphins spend their day depending on the season, as well as how to watch their cooperative fishing, such as following the dolphins from 10 metres behind instead of going in front or alongside them.”

The software can be used for the registration of relief organisations, refugee shelter registry with maps, inventory management, volunteer coordination and a missing person registry.

THE eight-storey, three-star Pho Sein hotel in Yangon’s Bahan Township is scheduled to open in mid-June, an official from the hotel said last week. “We bought the building three years ago and began making a high-grade renovation in March last year,” U Pyae Phyo Oo said.

“This is one of the prizes that athletes dream of winning. I’m really proud to be selected from among all the gold medallists in the country. I think I was chosen as I got a good result in Korea Open. It’s the highest level for taekwondo, and I came third in the competition,”

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