Burma’s junta to build orphanages for survivors

BURMA’S military junta will set up orphanages for the many hundreds of children whose parents died in the recent cyclone, state media reported yesterday.

Orphanages will be opened in Pyapon district and Labutta, Irrawaddy River delta towns, which were among those hit hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis.

Sources did not say how many orphans the government estimated had survived the May 3 disaster, or how many orphanages would be built.