Myanmar bloggers help build 'Budget Huts' in delta

 
Associated Press
Published: June 18, 2008

LABUTTA, Myanmar (AP) -- Bloggers may find their messages blocked by Myanmar's military regime, but that hasn't stopped Nyi Lynn Seck from raising tens of thousands of dollars for cyclone survivors through his website.

Now, the 29-year-old IT specialist and his friends are getting their hands dirty and putting the donations to work by helping to build "Budget Huts" in the Irrawaddy delta, a region still reel...


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