", 28 August 2008 (IRIN) - For 42-year-old Than Than and her husband, making ends meet has never been harder.
Their main source of livelihood took a direct hit when Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar’s Yangon Division in May, sweeping away their 200 ducks and five water buffaloes valued at over US$1,000.
Unable to sell eggs or rent out her buffaloes to plough her neighbour’s rice fields, her plight is indicative of many small-scale livestock farmers.
“I can barely make 1,200 kyat ($1) per day out of my livestock business now… Before the cyclone, I could make over 5,000 kyat ($5) per day,' the mother-of-three said, waving her arms at some ducks swimming nearby."
Where there's political will, there is a way
政治的な意思がある一方、方法がある
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ထြက္ရပ္လမ္းဟာေသခ်ာေပါက္ရိွတယ္
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စစ္မွန္တဲ့ခိုင္မာတဲ့နိုင္ငံေရးခံယူခ်က္ရိွရင္ႀကိဳးစားမႈရိွရင္ နိုင္ငံေရးအေျဖ
ထြက္ရပ္လမ္းဟာေသခ်ာေပါက္ရိွတယ္
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Friday, August 29, 2008
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