Max Quincey
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/ 12 May 2008

The scramble for survival

Having survived the cyclone, the struggle now is for survival. First there is the scramble for fresh water, with long lines all over Rangoon to buy it by the bucketload at three times the price it was before the cyclone. Then there is the hunt for shelter among the debris in a city where more homes are now without roofs than with them.