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Reaching Family in Myanmar Proves Difficult

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Published May 6, 2008 at 1:00 PM EDT

Thousands of Burmese-Americans with family in Myanmar are having trouble contacting them after the cyclone that hit this weekend. Alex Cohen talks with Zauya Lahpai, pastor of the Burmese Christian Community Church in Silicon Valley, about his failed efforts to reach his family members.

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