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Southeast Asia

Jul 23, 2008

Yangon City, Myanmar. Woman workers carry the same load of bricksas men but receive a lower salary.

SURVIVORS of Burma's cyclone Nargis face a "second emergency" unless $US1 billion in international aid is provided over the next three years, according to the first full assessment of the disaster.

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