BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | The hardship that sparked Burma ...
Oct 02, 2007·"The World Food Programme [WFP] provides food aid to 500,000 people across Myanmar [Burma] but that really only represents the poorest of the poor," said Paul Risley at the WFP in Bangkok. "What we've found is that over the last decade, opposite to virtually every other country in Asia where slowly poverty is being gnawed away at and food ...