02 MAY 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times: The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement on May 2 informed the public that a low pressure area that has been forming in the southeast of the Bay of Bengal could develop into a depression within four days. According to the observation of the De...
Sea hunters migrating to Mon state east coast adding to fisheries troubles
29 APR 2020 - Source: BNI Multimedia Group Nai Banyar Aung — As raft-fishing businesses in the Irrawaddy[Ayeyarwady] region also known as the West Coast experience deforestation and scarcity of fish resources, many big boat operations are setting their sights on the Myanmar East Coast. The journey t...
Erasmus Internship at International Hydropower Association at the United Kingdom
29 APR 2020 - Source: Linkedin - Part of a master program "Water Resources Engineering and Management", the University of Stuttgart provides opportunities for studying and training abroad. The ERASMUS program organises these opportunities, which not only offers the best possible exchange experi...
"နာဂစ်အလွန် ဓမင်းဆိပ်" Daminseik Beyond the Cyclone Nargis
အပိုင်း (၁) ပင်လယ်၏မာယာ ဓမင်းဆိပ် ပင်လယ်ကမ်းခြေ တိုက်စားခံရအပြီး မြေအောက်တွင် မြှုပ်ထားခဲ့သည့် ၃၆-လက္မ ဓါတ်ငွေ့ပိုက်လိုင်း ပေါ်လာသည်ကို ကာကွယ်ရန်အတွက် ကမ်းခြေကာ ကျောက်တန်းများ ချထားသည်မှာ ပြီးမြောက်သွားခဲ့ပြီ ဖြစ်သည်။ မှန်းဆထားခဲ့သလို လိုချင်သည့်ပုံစံ အပြည့်အဝ မရသော်လည်း၊ ပေးထားခဲ့သည့် မူလပုံစံအတိုင...
Wild waters: Ye, Mon State
28 APR 2020 - Source: Frontier Myanmar The latest instalment in our series about wild swimming spots focuses on little-visited Ye in southern Mon State, where we discover shipwrecks, deserted beaches and technicolour sunsets. By DOMINIC HORNER | FRONTIER Ye is very much a victim of its location. Sa...
"Groundwater talks" Webinar - IAH Colombia
IAH.Colombia is hosting the 3rd cycle of "groundwater talks". Save the date on your calendar! Time: 10 am UTC-5 (GMT-5) / 3 pm UTC (GMT+0) / 9:30 pm MMT Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZIoCc1JFWo8TzwqTwx8lxw Source Link: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10856605818...
Passengers use Pansodan-Dala crossing again after Thingyan holiday
23 April 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar Yangon Pansodan-Dala jetty is seen again with the passengers after the stay home period during Thingyan holiday, said Manager Daw Khin Khin Nu of Pansodan Jetty. After staying home period during Thingyan holiday, the government staff and the emplo...
Ontological politics of hydrosocial territories in the Salween River basin, Myanmar/Burma
Source: Academia Taking the Salween River in Myanmar as a case study, this paper draws on a growing body of hydrosocial literature to analyze the multiple ontologies of water taking each ontology to be constituted of-and enacted within-a human-more-than-human assemblage, the spatiote...
Construction of Dala Bridge to continue despite COVID-19
22 APR 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - The Dala Bridge project will continue despite the spread of COVID-19, according to the Bridge and Road Department under the Ministry of Construction. "Construction of Dala Bridge project will not stop. We didn't stop during Thingyan too," said chief e...
မြို့ပြရေအခွင့်အလမ်းကို အမြတ်ထုတ်ခြင်း
ဘေးအန္တရာယ်မှအခွင့်အလမ်းသို့ပြောင်းလဲခြင်း ကမ္ဘာတစ်လွှာမှာရှိတဲ့ခေါင်းဆောင်များက ရေဟာ အကျိုးသက်ရောက်မှုနဲ့ အန္တရာယ်ဖြစ်နိုင်ခြေမြင့်မားတဲ့ အရာဖြစ်ပြီးတော့ ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာထောက်ပံ့ရေးကွင်းဆက်တွေ၊ ဒေသတွင်းတည်ငြိမ်မှုနဲ့ စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ဆောင်မှုတွေအပေါ် ဆိုးကျိုးသက်ရောက်စေနိုင်တယ်လို့ ယူဆကြပါတယ်။ ဒါပေမယ်...
"Non-contact" Mekong River joint patrol begins
21 APR 2020 - Source: The Star - KUNMING: The 92nd Mekong River joint patrol led by China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand started on Tuesday (April 21) from Jingha Port, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Yunnan Province. The mission will cover areas including the "Golden...
Myanmar gears up for action on climate change
21 APRIL 2020 - Source: UN Environment Programme United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in his recent report on the Socio-Economic Impacts of COVID-19 that governments should not respond to the COVID-19 crisis by making policy and investment decisions that exacerbate existing crises...
Govt to build new ports with assistance from Japan
20 April 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) is planning to build new port terminals with financial assistance from the Japanese Government, minister U Thant Sin Maung said. Myanmar has nine ports located in Yangon Region, Ayeyarwaddy Region, Mon St...
Over 300,000 gallons of water distributed in 11 townships in Magway Region
20 April 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar In a bid to have adequate drinking water supply in the villages during summer, 300,570 gallons of water have been distributed for 3,712 households, consisted of 11,120 people, in 34 villages of 11 townships under four districts of Magway Region, a...
ကမ်းရိုးတန်းဒေသများရှိ မမြင်နိုင်သော မြေအောက်ရေအတွင်းဆားငန်ဝင်ရောက်မှုကို စီမံခန့်ခွဲခြင်း
ကမ္ဘာ့လူဦးရေ၏ ၄၀ရာခိုင်နှုန်းခန့်သည် ကီလိုမီတာ ၁၀၀ ခန့် ရှည်လျားသော ကမ္ဘာ့ကမ်းရိုးတန်းတစ်လျှောက်တွင် နေထိုင်လျက်ရှိကြသည်။ လူဦးရေထူထပ်များပြားလာသည်နှင့်အမျှ ကမ်းရိုးတန်းဒေသရှိ ရေချိုအရင်းအမြစ်၊ အထူးသဖြင့် မြေအောက်ရေလုံလောက်မှုအပေါ် ဖိအားပိုမိုကြီးမားလာသည်။ မြေအောက်ရေအရင်းအမြစ်၏ မြင်ကွင်းမှ ပျောက်ကွယ်...