Evacuations as Super Typhoon Haiyan hits Philippines

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Manila: A powerful typhoon has slammed into the Philippines’ central islands, whipping up waves as high as 4.5 metres with winds gusting up to 275 kilometres per hour.
Millions of people have been forced to move to high ground and storm shelters, in 20 provinces as typhoon Haiyan lashed the islands of Leyte and Samar.
Philippine president Benigno Aquino warned Filipinos they face calamity and urged people in the path of the giant storm to make all possible precautions.

Super Typhoon Haiyan is seen approaching the Philippines in this Japan Meteorological Agency handout image taken on Thursday. Photo: Reuters/Japan Meteorological Agency

The maximum category-five level typhoon cut power lines and phone lines and grounded air and sea transport. Officials said it was too early to know the extent of damage.

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Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks with old friends during a reception at Oxford University. (Photo: Reuters)
Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi said that her choice to lead Burma’s democracy struggle most strongly affected her sons as they were apart from their mother while growing
Aung San Suu Kyi gets honorary degree from Oxford
Myanma democracy icon and Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi who started European tour on 13 June has returned to Myanmar by Thai TG 303 flight at about 10.30 am on 30 June after visiting five countries—Switzerland, Norway, Ireland, Britain and France. Despite it was first announced that TG 303 flight was scheduled to land Yangon International Airport at 8.50 am, it arrived at about 10.30 am. A great number of cheering supporters were seen waiting to welcome Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in and around Yangon International Airport at about 6 am. As she arrived at the airport, a large number of supporters gave a big round of applause. Moreover, hundreds of people and NLD supporters were packed at the airport and lined along Pyay Road by waving miniature flags.
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks with old friends during a reception at Oxford University. (Photo: Reuters) Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi said that her choice to lead Burma’s democracy struggle most strongly affected her sons as they were apart from their mother while growing up. The opposition leader said that she does not feel that she has sacrificed anything greatly, but it was her children and British husband Michael Aris who felt the brunt of her long isolation. An interview with ITV News, the 67-year-old said, “It was a sacrifice for my sons and husband especially for my sons because … the children were young.”
Local contestants take part in a bodybuilding contest at Myanmar Convention Center (MCC) in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, June 23, 2012.
Local contestants take part in a bodybuilding contest at Myanmar Convention Center (MCC) in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, June 23, 2012.
As Myanmar opens up after five decades of military rule, a country run on cash is finding a new alternative: plastic. Private banks in Myanmar have begun rolling out automated teller machines in recent weeks, revolutionary in a country where people often haul sacks and suitcases of cash to banks. And more ambitious plans are in the works. "It's fantastic, so convenient," Naing Lin Oo, a 26-year-old computer engineer, said after withdrawing about 120,000 kyat one recent afternoon. "It would be good to see more of these," he added, pointing to a two-month-old blue-and-yellow ATM run by Co-Operative Bank, one of Myanmar's 13 private banks.”

Evacuations as Super Typhoon Haiyan hits Philippines

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Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks with old friends during a reception at Oxford University. (Photo: Reuters)

Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi said that her choice to lead Burma’s democracy struggle most strongly affected her sons as they were apart from their mother while growing

Aung San Suu Kyi gets honorary degree from Oxford

Local contestants take part in a bodybuilding contest at Myanmar Convention Center (MCC) in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, June 23, 2012.

Local contestants take part in a bodybuilding contest at Myanmar Convention Center (MCC) in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, June 23, 2012.

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